On 3/25/12 7:45 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
On 21/03/12 04:31, Mark Callow wrote:
On 17/03/2012 08:19, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
I think that trying to get web developers to do this right is a lost
cause, esp. because none of them (to a good approximation) have any
big-endian systems to test on.
On what do you base this oft-repeated assertion? ARM CPUs can work
either way. I have no idea how the various licensees are actually
setting them up.
All major mobile OSes use LE on ARM — I believe we currently don't ship
anything on BE ARM. (We, do, however, currently ship on BE MIPS, though
MIPS too is mostly LE nowadays).
Yep, exactly. Sorry I missed the original mail from Mark, but Geoffrey
is spot on: none of the licensees actually shipping anything resembling
consumer hardware are setting up their processors to run BE, to my
knowledge.
-Boris
