Re: endiannes of the kernel
Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:50:12 -0400 (EDT)
>> 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.
Windows NT, Linux, Digital UNIX (Tru64), and OpenVMS all run the Alpha
in little-endian mode. Big-endian support is an optional (mis-)feature.
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