#bigendian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bigendian, aggregated by home.social.
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@wyatt At least from 2005 through 2016, Microsoft had 360 reasons to care about big endian. Xbox 360's Xenon CPU uses a customized PowerPC instruction set.
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What's the most affordable, readily available, powerful big-endian system available these days (for testing Linux packages)? Probably a POWER 8 machine I guess.
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Is there any #BigEndian CPU still in production & continued development?
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In our latest blog post, Codethink investigates big-endian support by exploring RISC-V's runtime-controllable endianness, using QEMU as the testing base.
The challenge: RISC-V allows runtime control of endianness, but no commercial hardware or emulators currently support it.
Interested in how we did it? Read here: https://www.codethink.co.uk/articles/risc-v-big-endian-support-runtime-testing/
✍️ Lawrence Hunter, Ben Dooks, Roan Richmond
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Does anyone know if little-endian has any technical advantages? Big-endian machines are all but extinct these days (outside of IBM mainframes).
Or is is just a case of having to pick one and stick with it, like how all life on Earth is made out of L-chiral amino acids and D-chiral carbohydrates?
#bigendian #endianness #chirality #cpu #cpudesign -
Today's thanks go to @ema for https://www.linux.it/~ema/posts/disposable-debian-vms-debvm/
Currently used to check what happens on the single #BigEndian arch we have left in #debian… (s390x)
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Oh my goodness... does that mean Intel CPUs are #BigEndian in #Australia?!?
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Imagine that your #fingers represented #binary digits. Place your hands in front of yourself and make the number 132 (#bigendian or #littleendian).
You're welcome 🤣
