Re: Problems in building xscale big endian toolchain

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:17:29AM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
>
> > > I?ve tried your great croostool. It works fine in most cases.
> > > But as I tried to build a big endian toolchain for Intel XScale IXP425 with
> > > crosstool-0.28-rc36 and demo-arm-xscale.sh (eval `cat arm-xscale.dat 
> > > gcc-3.4.1-glibc-2.3.3.dat` sh all.sh --notest) i got a ARM little endian 
> > > toolchain. I thought XScale is big endian in each case ??
> > > I saw that the configuration above applied the 
> > > gcc-3.4.1/gcc-3.4.0-arm-bigendian.patch to gcc which is intend for set big 
> > > endian as default ??
> >
> > Only if the target name matches arm*b*.
> > If xscale is indeed always big-endian,
>
>
> No.  xscale supports both big and little endian.  As an example, on
> this board you can switch between big and little endian with a jumper:
>
> 	http://www.adiengineering.com/productsBRH.html
>
> The debian ARM port is little endian, and most ARMs are run in little
> endian mode, but the Intel IXP* network processors are mostly (always?)
> run in big endian mode.

Then I guess I'll add bigendian xscale demo files, and leave the
little endian ones there, too.

Thanks,
Dan

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