Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> jpfoster@exterity.co.uk wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm porting a VR4120A based micro to netbsd.
>> I've got the initial setup done, console, cache etc
>>     
>  :
>   
>> The div_d routine is in arch/mips/mips though so I would
>> not have thought endian had anything to do with it.
>>     
>
> I'm afraid there are few people who tried mips SOFTFLOAT code
> on big endian environment. (anyone tried it on alchemy?)
>   

I run alchemy little endian, because there are some ugly PCI quirks when
it runs big endian.

I'll try to take a look at this on AR5312, which also runs big endian.

> I guess you would have to add some #if _BYTE_ORDER
> like locore_mips3.S to swap high/low words in some
> 64bit functions.
>
> BTW, do NEC VR41xx processors work properly on big endian?
> I heard a rumour that some embedded peripherals didn't work
> on big endian since they were designed for WindowsCE.
>   

Alchemy PCI works far better in little endian mode.  I don't recall the
precise details offhand, but I know it was something for which there
wasn't a simple workaround.


    -- Garrett
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> Izumi Tsutsui
>   


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