Hello, On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Phil Blundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:50 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: >> I'm a little puzzled. So little endian gnueabi ARM is armel, little >> endian OABI ARM is arm. What about big endian ARM cases? Thanks! > > Debian has never had big-endian ARM as an officially supported > architecture, so to that extent there's no precedent to follow in this > area. > > The natural name for a big-endian gnueabi port would obviously be > "armeb". That does leave big-endian OABI somewhat out in the cold but, > given that OABI has been obsolescent for the best part of a decade, this > doesn't seem totally unreasonable. If anybody did want to use dpkg with > such a thing (and wanted to avoid colliding with armeb) then I guess > they'd have to name it "armob" or something. >
adding some history here: <quoting Lennert Buytenhek> > It's not so unusual anymore since intel introduced the IXP series > of chips which come with mostly BE oriented reference designs. The nslu2 itself comes with an ixp4xx CPU, but the armeb port is also used on a number of ixp2000 boards. Having a big-endian arm distro to run on the ixp2000 was an important reason for developing this port. As to why I chose armeb instead of armbe, partially because of the -EB/-EL thing, partially because the arch name also has the endianity at the end (armv4b, armv4l, armv5teb, armv5tel), partially because when I first started porting a distro to armeb, a number of tools (binutils? I can't remember now.) did accept arm*b-*-* as target string but didn't accept armbe-*-*. The latter might have changed in the meanwhile, but the original decision to use armeb instead of armbe was made over two years ago. cheers, Lennert </quoting Lennert Buytenhek> Please note that there have been lots of issues with armbe (in configure scripts etc), so I would recommend using armeb. Regards, -- Leon _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
