On Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:17:00 -0800  Jonathan Stone wrote:

> 
> Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com> writes:
> 
> [Toru Nishimura wrote]
> 
> >>Although there is little possibility to have big-endian NetBSD/mips
> >>in near future, it's surely wise to make NetBSD/mips endian neutral.
> 
> >This issue is similar to support native 64LP mode on R4000 (or better)
> >and having an 32LP mode for applications.  You'll need multiple syscall
> >tables (similar to emulations) and syscall converters.  
> 
> >I'd like to see both be possible.
> 
> I'm confused. Does "bi-endian" mean that /sys/arch mips supports
> either big- or little-endian kernels, configured statically; or does
> it mean support for running big-endian binaries on a machine with a
> little-endian kernel(or vice-versa?)
> 
> The former is relatively straightforward.  The second is *much* more
> complicated, especially where ``untyped'' data crosses syscall
> boundaries (e.g., ioctl()).  I'm unsure whether simple syscall
> converters can always DTRT there.

Meaning we'll be able to run the IRIX version of NetScape on
NetBSD/pmax?  Fingers crossed :-)

Simon.