Endianness of freeBSD

[Enno Davids]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 01:20:14PM +0100, Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:
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|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.)


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