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Hello,

I hope some could help me.

I understand that BSD uses little indian on PC architecture, however I
was curious if little indian was used with BSD on a Solaris.

-Trav

Okay, an opportunity to clear up multiple confusions....

It's "endian" and refers to the byte order for multi-byte numbers
in the native representation of the processor.  Intel processors
are little-endian, Motorola and SPARC processors (in Sun machines)
are big-endian, meaning that the most significant byte of a multi-
byte word is at the lowest memory address.

Solaris is an operating system, and runs on SPARC and i386 architectures.
You wouldn't use BSD with Solaris.

It's HW specific, and the operating system conforms to the endian-ness
of the HW.  So, yes, BSD on a SPARC will be big-endian.  I assume that
you mean "SPARC" instead of "Solaris".

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| It's HW specific, and the operating system conforms to the endian-ness
| of the HW.  So, yes, BSD on a SPARC will be big-endian.  I assume that
| you mean "SPARC" instead of "Solaris".

"will be"?  So does this mean porting is in progress, or at least planned?

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Been talked about, current status seems to be "in limbo".  See the
(almost empty) archives of the freebsd-sparc mailing list.

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=5109+0+archive/2001/free...

Use NetBSD or OpenBSD instead.

On 24 Apr 2001 17:22:10 +1000

GB>
GB> > "will be"?  So does this mean porting is in progress, or at least planned?
GB>
GB> Been talked about, current status seems to be "in limbo".  See the
GB> (almost empty) archives of the freebsd-sparc mailing list.

        NetBSD OTOH does run on Sparcs and it is big endian when it does.

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Quote:> You wouldn't use BSD with Solaris.

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