On November 7, 2021 5:18:54 p.m. EST, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Hello Rick!
On 11/7/21 22:44, rleir@leirtech.com wrote:
This thread below claims that Big-Endian is dead (2015). It says that IBM changed
their PowerPC's from BE to LE. Also that web developers assume LE.
Not sure how your comment is related to the original question but let me just add this:
- IBM's s390x architecture is fully supported and one of IBM's cash cows and it's big-endian
- IBM's AIX operating system which IBM is still actively developing and selling is big-endian
Adrian explained the problem in Firefox a while ago, it was complex.
Not really. Firefox on Solaris/SPARC exists and works. It's not complex, it's just that I am
doing the work here alone. I was planning to write an answer to this mail but I haven't gotten
around to doing that.
The words of Linus:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/24/606
Linux Plumbers Congress 2020:
https://lwn.net/Articles/829733/
Linus is not the center of the universe.
Adrian
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