Endian Issues
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Endian Issues
The MVME2400 series supports both little endian software and big-endian
software. Because the PowerPC processor is inherently big endian, PCI is
inherently little-endian, and the VMEbus is big endian, things do get rather
confusing. The following figures shows how the MVME2400 series
handles the endian issue in big-endian and little-endian modes:
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