On Aug 1, 10:09am, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Subject: Re: Compiling a new kernel?!
> Markus wrote:
> > I really don't know if you could compile this into a NetBSD/arm32 kernel
> > and if this would work. There would probably be problems because of the
> > 68xxx being big endian and the ARM family being little endian (or vice
> > versa).
>
> Could someone remind me which way around it is - I can't remember what
> was said about the strtod() bug fix, but it had to do with different
> `endianness'.

Well, if I remember correctly (last time I needed the info was fixing the
strtod() bug) the situation is as follows:

The ARM is switchable endianness, the NetBSD/arm32 is fixed at:

Integer: little-endian
FP: middle-endian (IIRC strtod() was configured for big-endian but it was a
long time ago so I may have swapped things round in my mind... check the data
sheets to be sure)

Cheers

Rob

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