Re: endiannes of the kernel

lhirlimann@itsoft.fr
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:32:56 +0200

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>No; Alpha is little endian (as, obviously, is Intel). SPARC,
>m68k and PowerPC are big-endian; MIPS and ARM can >be either.

AFAIK the Alpha and the POwerPC can do Both. For the PowerPC it doesn't matter
(just have to tell him). On the Alpha the best mode is Big Endian - little
endians slows the beast - afaik being little endian 32 bits is the best way to
slow the beast : exactly what NT does.

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