Re: A pointed question about endianness...

["Alistair Lambie" <alambie@wellington.sgi.com>]

On Jun 16, 12:21pm, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Btw, question to the SGI gurus - is the kernel byteorder of SGI machines
> be reconfigurable?
>

As the guys in the US won't be in for a while yet.....

My belief is that Indy's were designed to require a PROM change.  I have also
heard that there was a problem running NT that required some mods to the
boards.
These were never released to the field.

So the answer is yes, but in practice no!

Cheers, Alistair

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