Re: A pointed question about endianness...

["William J. Earl" <wje@fir.engr.sgi.com>]

Alistair Lambie writes:
 > 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!
...
     Indy never ran anything little-endian, although the memory controller
could in principle support it.  The rest of the system probably would not
work correctly.  As far as I know, only the MIPS Magnum systems really
work both ways.  (They actually work better little-endian, but most were shipped
big-endian.)