Alex deVries wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Eric Jorgensen wrote:
> > I'm not sure why you want to run linux in big-endian mode on it, but
> > to
> > each his own. This is a bi-endian machine, and most of the work on mips
> > porting software has been to the little-endian target.
>
> Uh, just to clarify this: there is a pretty sizeable mipseb porting
> project, although traditionally it's targetted towards SGI hardware. From
> the userland perspective, we've had Red Hat 5.1 ported for about half a
> year, and you can even buy it on CD from Red Hat (unsupported).
I stand corrected.
I also realized after my posting that the Magnum 4000 will run headless
in big-endian, but not in little-endian, due to the ARC console wanting,
well, a console.
On the other hand, I'm ignorant of how well the non-arc bootloader
works. For that matter, I dunno how well the ARC bootloader works.
- Eric
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