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| From: | Jason <gentoo@××××××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-embedded@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm or armeb? | ||
| Date: | Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:36:37 | ||
| Message-Id: | 48E61FDC.4060908@lakedaemon.net | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm or armeb? by Jean-Marc Beaune |
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| 1 | Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: |
| 2 | > The question is not specifically for this hardware but more "when to choose |
| 3 | > arm and when to choose armeb" ? |
| 4 | |
| 5 | If your end application is network heavy, I would choose big endian |
| 6 | (which is Network Byte Order). Outside of that, little endian is |
| 7 | preferred by a lot of folks simply because it gets more testing. Most |
| 8 | drivers and apps are written on and for little endian architectures. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | hth, |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Jason. |