Re: mips/mipsel
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Robert Barnes wrote:
> Could someone please drop me a short note explaining the difference between
> mips and mipsel??
>
> Which is appropriate to my Indy?
MIPS processors are special in that at reset time, they can choose to
be either big-endian or little-endian. "mips" is the architecture name if
the CPU is used in big-endian mode, "mipsel" is for little-endian.
little-endian means that the least significant byte of a word is stored
first in memory (at the lower address); big-endian means that the most
significant byte is stored first.
Your Indy is big endian, so "mips" is the proper architecture for you.
Regards,
Pontus
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