Re: IBM PPC 405 series little endian?

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:18:30 -0400 (EDT)


Zehetbauer Thomas writes:

> Has someone experimented with running linux in little-endian mode on IBM
> PowerPC 405 (Walnut) yet?

I doubt it. You are at least the 3rd person to want little-endian.
Somebody at Matrox posted a patch for little-endian on the 74xx.
You need a bit more than that though; you need to change the way
page table bits get set and modify head_4xx.S IIRC.
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