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This document lists some reasons [0] • Growing interest in running entire OS in little-endian mode – Ease porting of programs from other architectures –
by cliffbean 12y ago
This document lists some reasons [0]
• Growing interest in running entire OS in little-endian mode
– Ease porting of programs from other architectures
– Ease porting of programs which access files containing LE binary data
– Ease communication with GPUs
• New OpenPower Consortium
– IBM, Google, Tyan, Nvidia, Mellanox
Also, see [1].
[0] http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/70/Kvm-forum-2013-Mackerras.pdf http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/70/Kvm-forum-2013-Mac...
[1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/confessions_of_a_recovering_proprietary_programmer_endianness?lang=en https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-...