On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 02:10:50 +0900 (JST) 
 Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> wrote:

 > I partially agree with this. Also, `uname -m` should answer "mipsle" 
 > on pmax and pica/arc, and "mipsbe" on newsmips, too.
 > (or, "mips-le" and "mips-be" is prefered?)

mipseb and mipsel -- that's what the mips people use :-)

 > But, ${MACHINE_ARCH} should be remained as "mips", because it is
 > used to determine source directory in Makefile, and the source
 > directory (i.e. XXX/arch/mips) should be shared between "mipsle" and
 > "mipsbe".
 > 
 > BTW, powerpc is also bi-endian architecture. What do they do ?

Avoid the issue :-/  I think all of the PowerPC ports currently assume
big endian.

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