John Reiser <[email protected]> writes: > The IXP4xx networking engine operates big endian only. Nevertheless > many NSLU2 machines run little-endian and still use that networking > hardware.
With a performance penalty since all buffers have to be swapped. > Little- > endian operation of the CPU offers the advantage that an unaligned > fetch from memory gives results that are usable after quick fixup. > An unaligned fetch in big-endian mode essentially gives junk. Both BE and LE obviously have advantages and disadvantages. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
