Warner Losh writes:

>I think the closest that I've seen is netscape for sgi.  You'd need an
>sgi sys call emulation layer in the kernel, and multiple byte gender
>support as well.  I think that even then you may need an R4xxx based
>machine to even think about doing this (unless you can trap illegal
>instructions on R[23]000 systems well enough to emulate the R4xxx
>instructions.

Actually, the mips1 (r[23]00) CPUs dont' have bi-endian support, so
this is only an option at *all* for mips3 DECstations -- 5000/50,
500/150, or 5000/260.

Even there, you would still need an cross-endian syscall stub to
byteswap the relevant syscall arguments, and in-kernel emulation of
any SGI-specific syscalls not already in NetBSD's svr4 emulation.


>Or the short answer: you are SOL :-)

Yup, 'fraid so.