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From: Mark Salisbury <mbs@mc.com>
To: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>,
        Zehetbauer Thomas <TZ@link.topcall.co.at>
Subject: Re: IBM PPC 405 series little endian?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 15:08:26 -0400
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:34:21PM +0200, Zehetbauer Thomas wrote:
> > Has someone experimented with running linux in little-endian mode on IBM
> > PowerPC 405 (Walnut) yet?
> 
> With the possible exception of the matrox guy, I haven't heard of ANYONE 
> running in LE mode on ppc. The second problem is going to be to recompile 
> ALL the applications you want and hope they work.

actually, we run ppc 603, 750 and 74xx series ppc's little endian in a PCI
based shared memory multicomputer.

we also run them big-endian in the VME based version.
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