Little-endian PowerPC
Little-endian PowerPC
Posted Oct 8, 2010 1:19 UTC (Fri) by busterb (subscriber, #560)In reply to: Little-endian PowerPC by linuxjacques
Parent article: Little-endian PowerPC
Also, the IXP425 has a proprietary firmware that runs on the microengines that drive the networking subsystem. These always run big-endian, so it makes sense to have the whole chip be big endian (the microengines are not byte-swappable like the ARM core is.)
I did a lot of coding for the IXP2855, which is the IXP425's discontinued big brother.
