It also depends on which new drivers you expect to use and thus need to
port from the x86 world. I can certainly tell you that we always start
off with LE for driver porting, for obvious reasons (x86, PCI), and then
go BE after that.
/Hartvig
Marc Karasek writes:
>
> No, I have been involved with too many sorties in the war already. I
> was just asking if there was any issues with one side or the other from
> a purely technical aspect.
>
> On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:20, Steven J. Hill wrote:
> > Marc Karasek wrote:
> > >
> > > How many of you are involved with embedded linux development using a
> > > MIPS processor?
> > >
> > A fair number of us. Over a hundred easily.
> >
> > > What endianess have you chosen for your project and why?
> > >
> > You don't really want to start this holy war, do you? That aside,
> > usually big endian is more useful in applications moving networking
> > type traffic or a fair amount of graphics processing. Little endian
> > is handy if you are porting applications from Windows or a lot of
> > your software is written in little endian.
> >
> > That's my $.02.
> >
> > -Steve
> >
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> > Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer
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