Subject: Re: "Malta" MIPS port committed.
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-embed
Date: 03/15/2002 01:20:37
"Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@poofygoof.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:04:12PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > Wasabi Systems is pleased to announce yet another new NetBSD port. It
> > is to the to MIPS Technologies Malta evaluation board. Simon Burge did
> > the work, and has committed it to the main NetBSD source tree.
> 
> two questions:
> 
> * is the port bi-endian?  (it looks like the hardware is, at least for the
>   QED RM5261 cpu board.)

We know of no reason it should not be, though I believe Simon has yet
to test that.

> * are all similarly-ended MIPS ports binary compatible with eachother?

Generally.

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