On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:30:18AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:

 > Well, that's the theory.  In practice, there have been problems,
 > particularly with PCI busses on big-endian machines (a lot of PCI
 > hardware assumes it's on Intel, ie, little-endian).  Fortunately(?),
 > the alpha is little-endian, so that particular problem won't bite, but
 > there may be others.

Actually, this has not been much of a problem in practice.  Many
PCI drivers in NetBSD have worked out of the box on e.g. macppc.

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