Re: Endianity question
>>>>> On Thu, 26 May 2005 10:17:02 +0300, Emil Samovsky <emilsa@qballtech.net> said:
Emil> I'm not completely sure what you mean by PSR.BE. Can I switch to this
Emil> mode on existing kernel, or should I compile kernel with this flag on?
Others have already said that you cannot (easily) build a big-endian
Linux distribution. I merely pointed out that an application can
(temporarily) switch to big-endian by turning on the PSR.BE bit (which
is a bit in the processor status register), if it knows what it's
doing.
If you need a big-endian OS on Itanium, HP-UX is probably your best
choice.
--david
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