Hello Rick! On 11/7/21 22:44, rl...@leirtech.com wrote: > This thread below claims that Big-Endian is dead (2015). It says that IBM > changed > their PowerPC's from BE to LE. Also that web developers assume LE.
Not sure how your comment is related to the original question but let me just add this: - IBM's s390x architecture is fully supported and one of IBM's cash cows and it's big-endian - IBM's AIX operating system which IBM is still actively developing and selling is big-endian > Adrian explained the problem in Firefox a while ago, it was complex. Not really. Firefox on Solaris/SPARC exists and works. It's not complex, it's just that I am doing the work here alone. I was planning to write an answer to this mail but I haven't gotten around to doing that. > The words of Linus: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/24/606 > > Linux Plumbers Congress 2020: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/829733/ Linus is not the center of the universe. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
