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Re: IXP425 Big Endian Mode
- From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at gmail dot com>
- To: Sujoy Ray <raysujoy at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:51:11 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] IXP425 Big Endian Mode
- References: <20050610084057.54361.qmail@web53402.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at gmail dot com>
On 6/10/05, Sujoy Ray <raysujoy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> big-endian order. Now, I have a question - how the
> processor executes the above mentioned code, when it
> is in little endian mode. I know for sure that there
> is some way to do that because the code works fine. I
> think 'am missing some basic concept - any suggestion
> will be highly appreciated.
big/little endian mode only matters for 8 and 16bit accesses, and the
instructions are 32bit.
See http://www.intel.com/design/network/applnots/25423701.pdf for details.
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