ppc LE questions (seeking help hand info pointers)

David Edelsohn dje at watson.ibm.com
Fri Sep 21 05:35:36 EST 2001


>>>>> Holger Bettag writes:

Holger> You are aware that a PPC in little endian mode is merely tricking with the
Holger> low order address bits, but does not actually lay out its data in a little
Holger> endian fashion in physical memory?

	This is why Mark said "assume I am also aware of the limiations of
the chip in LE mode and the intended target is 7400+ processors".
Motorola has added a more complete LE mode.

David

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