Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: MACHINE_ARCH WRONG ON MIPS PLATFORMS
To: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 07/23/1998 11:02:11
On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 02:49:31 +0900 (JST) 
 Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp> wrote:

 > It doesn't mean that future NetBSD release does support little-endian
 > powerpc.
 > If mips should be changed, powerpc should be changed, too.
 > There are no official release of powerpc NetBSD, so it is relatively
 > easier than mips.

What GNU does for PowerPC is:

	powerpc		big-endian PowerPC
	powerpcle	little-endian PowerPC

I think the latter is not very common.

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