Subject: Re: PowerPC
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Peter Bierman <lunatic@cs.wisc.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/08/1996 00:38:12
At 6:33 PM 1/7/96, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>Big endian/Little endian patches? Isn't the PPC primarily a big-endian
>machine, which can make little-endian accesses, and can (I was told)
>generate little-endian stack frames?


It's a big-endian machine, but can be switched into little-endian mode, and
can even be rebooted in little-endian mode. It defaults to big though.

-pmb

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