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[Michael Schmitz]

> I think porting Linux PPC to little endian could be a great idea. Now, all
> systems
> use PCI, and little endian is the native mode of this bus. Trying
> to get all PCI hardware well supported on Linux i386 working on a PowerPC
> box
> is an headache, and a lot of drivers and programs don't work proberly for
> only one
> reason: endianess... Using PowerPC in big endian mode is only understandable
> in closed
> computers like iMac.

Nothing wrong with starting a new port (ppc-le). Might be faster than
getting all those i386 driver authors to fix their endianness problems,
after all.

You'd probably sacrifice binary compatibility with existing LinuxPPC
software, but hey - who'd want to run Linux binaries that would run on an
iMac anyway?

</sarcasm off>

	Michael


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