On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 02:29:46AM +0100, hubert@feyrer.de wrote:

 > Is there a good reason (like, backward compat with some native/host OS)?
 > 
 > I wonder if it was possible to just agree on one endiannes, to unify the
 > ports and make it possible to share one set of binaries/binary pkgs among
 > them?

Because different embedded users want a different byte-order for
different reasons.

Remember -- this is a port to the evaluation boards.

The dreamcast and mmeye ports each have a specific byte-order.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>