[U-Boot-Users] Support for little endian mode on PPC?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Jul 8 12:24:43 CEST 2005


In message <8DFD8CD3D3336B44AED36830333BBDA4010AF415 at exchange.ime.intern> you wrote:
> 
> one simple and short question: Does u-boot support the little endian
> mode of MPC5200 or will do it in future releases?

No. The native mode of operation on PowerPC is big-endian, and  there
is zero reason to try running them in little endian mode. U-Boot will
always support BE mode on PPC only - like Linux, btw.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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