From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Klkph-0005EV-BS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:36:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FAE7E023B; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mho-02-bos.mailhop.org (mho-02-bos.mailhop.org [63.208.196.179]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FDD3E023B for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip98-183-242-55.hr.hr.cox.net ([98.183.242.55] helo=phobos) by mho-02-bos.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Klkpb-000EGD-0S for gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:36:31 +0000 Received: from [10.16.5.250] (unknown [10.16.5.250]) by phobos (Postfix) with ESMTP id F375E1870020 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:36:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 98.183.242.55 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX18Q0IQuXJIEv1QcPou8l+rD2RCkI/NjOnk= Message-ID: <48E61FDC.4060908@lakedaemon.net> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:36:28 -0400 From: Jason User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080927) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] arm or armeb? References: <8349216a0810030318r32fa8805u78b842b9b265126e@mail.gmail.com> <48E5FC63.1090509@hiramoto.org> <8349216a0810030434r3b5d7c29xb5ebc0d8a99cdc6e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8349216a0810030434r3b5d7c29xb5ebc0d8a99cdc6e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d3e0aed-a91b-4d4c-b506-c26564ae855a X-Archives-Hash: f681fadd404ab4de56b8b455d5b4b82b Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: > The question is not specifically for this hardware but more "when to choose > arm and when to choose armeb" ? If your end application is network heavy, I would choose big endian (which is Network Byte Order). Outside of that, little endian is preferred by a lot of folks simply because it gets more testing. Most drivers and apps are written on and for little endian architectures. hth, Jason.