Re: ✘ Release blockers?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Paul!

On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:05:51 +0300
Paul Fertser <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 10:41:09AM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 06:00:40PM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:  
> > > > Could be.  AFAIK, only some Power CPUs have big-endian modes.
> > > > They should die...    
> > > 
> > > Many popular SOHO routers/APs are using MIPS BE SoCs (e.g. all
> > > Atheros/QCA devices) and people run gpsd on them with OpenWrt.  
> > 
> > Yes, but I believe they all run in little-endian mode.  Power can
> > run  
> 
> Mediatek-based devices run in LE [0], Atheros/QCA in BE [1] (notice
> mipsel vs. mips). There's also Lantiq which is also BE [2] and is
> basically the only supported architecture with xDSL drivers.

Nice to know, but without someone to test on something BE nothing gpsd
can do.

Can you test BE for us?

> Broadcom is BE too (but they suck).

Broadcom never gives us the doc we need, so cross them off.

RGDS
GARY
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