From: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria•com>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Subject: Re: Anyone using "PowerPC" little-endian mode?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:37:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100613063716.GA8026@cynthia.pants.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C079F1D.7000707@mlbassoc.com>
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:25:01AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I don't know about today, but my recollection is that the only
> use of little-endian mode on PowerPC was during the early days
> attempt to run Windows-NT.
You could potentially hit this case by running Mac on Linux. A handful
of Mac programs (like early versions of VirtualPC) used this mode. Any
that did had to get fixed to run on a PowerMac G5, obviously. I haven't
personally tried this, and I wouldn't be shocked to find that MoL
chokes on this case for some other reason.
I do know that VirtualPC did this because it was G3/G4 only for a while
until they rewrote it to not use the little-endian mode.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria•com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-13 7:10 UTC|newest]
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2010-06-03 12:20 Anyone using "PowerPC" little-endian mode? Paul Mackerras
2010-06-03 12:25 ` Gary Thomas
2010-06-13 6:37 ` Brad Boyer [this message]
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