- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:12:16 -0700
On 3/25/12 7:45 AM, Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > On 21/03/12 04:31, Mark Callow wrote: >> >> On 17/03/2012 08:19, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >>> >>> I think that trying to get web developers to do this right is a lost >>> cause, esp. because none of them (to a good approximation) have any >>> big-endian systems to test on. >>> >> On what do you base this oft-repeated assertion? ARM CPUs can work >> either way. I have no idea how the various licensees are actually >> setting them up. > > All major mobile OSes use LE on ARM ? I believe we currently don't ship > anything on BE ARM. (We, do, however, currently ship on BE MIPS, though > MIPS too is mostly LE nowadays). Yep, exactly. Sorry I missed the original mail from Mark, but Geoffrey is spot on: none of the licensees actually shipping anything resembling consumer hardware are setting up their processors to run BE, to my knowledge. -Boris
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