Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:40:50 +1100 From: Enno Davids <enno.davids@metva.com.au> To: "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Endianness of freeBSD Message-ID: <20080204134050.GB1128@bashful.metva.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200802041320.14955.wundram@beenic.net> References: <1563a4fd0802040403x2b71eaa1yd3d8f78e7742843b@mail.gmail.com> <200802041320.14955.wundram@beenic.net>
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:20:14PM +0100, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: | |As I said above: it depends on the hardware. There is even hardware (ARM, in |particular) which can run in little- or big-endian mode, depending on how it |is initialized. If I recall correctly some of the MIPS chips had/ve an endian selector bit on each page table entry in the MMU. The idea was to map each of the I/O devices through the MMU and let that bit help in talking to the hardware (i.e. Intel peripherals expecting little endian and motorola chips wanting the opposite.) E.
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