On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:24 PM Bernd Zeimetz <
bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 16:37 -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> > I am seeing people run aarch64 in eb mode.
>
> Does that take special hardware? Is it a jumper on the chip or a mode bit
> the software can set/reset?
>
> What's available in the way of hardware and/or OS/distro that supports BIG
> endian mode?
I think Debian buster was the last release to support BE mips.
Basically nobody is using that anymore. Too many limits.
People use mipsel these days.
If I remember right there are some development boards where the endianess is
switched at boot time. I still wouldn't spend time into it except you need
it.
We are testing gpsd on sparc64, which is big-endian.
My intention was to run strange architectures to flush out any assumptions that all machines are either x86_64 or arm64.
My main pool server is deliberately i386 :-)
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Sanjeev