On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:25:01AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
I don't know about today, but my recollection is that the only
use of little-endian mode on PowerPC was during the early days
attempt to run Windows-NT.
You could potentially hit this case by running Mac on Linux. A handful
of Mac
Currently the kernel supports processes running in little-endian mode
on machines that have a little-endian mode (as opposed to an endian
bit in the TLB entry like most embedded PowerPC processors do, which
is a much better idea). Little-endian mode comes in two flavours:
so-called PowerPC
On 06/03/2010 06:20 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
Currently the kernel supports processes running in little-endian mode
on machines that have a little-endian mode (as opposed to an endian
bit in the TLB entry like most embedded PowerPC processors do, which
is a much better idea). Little-endian mode
