Re: mips/mipsel
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:48:25PM +1000, Robert Barnes wrote:
> Could someone please drop me a short note explaining the difference between
> mips and mipsel??
The mips processors can run in both endianesses - Big end Little endian.
Due to Hardware limitations the Machines are more or less tight
to one endianess.
> Which is appropriate to my Indy?
Indy is definitly Big Endian - Means "mips".
(RM200, Decstation etc are little endian)
Flo
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