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0 pointspabs34y ago0 comments

IIRC ARM devices can also be big-endian and GCC can even generate big endian 64-bit ARM code:

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Yeah, you can find an ARM big endian distribution of, for example NetBSD. No Linux that I can find. Apparently boot issues are a bit tricky.

erk__4y ago

I have found a Gentoo distribution with big endian for the raspberry pi 3, so it is out there https://github.com/zeldin/linux-1/releases

rjsw4y ago

I'm fairly sure that NetBSD/arm switches to big endian once the kernel is running, the boot process is unchanged.

The thing holding it back for Rpi4 is UEFI+ACPI, so I assume there's some boot process changes.

rvp-x4y ago

ACPI is problematic in big endian.

You used to be able to get debian arm-be, but that was a good 15 years ago.

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