[fpc-devel] help with softfloat for arm big endian crosscompiler

[peter green]

> Hola, most modern ARM cpu's support big endian, that is not the point. 
> Question is how many an big endian platforms exists, and this is not so 
> popular, because even if you switch the cpu to big endian, the underlying 
> hardware remains little endian (with the cpu doing the conversion). This 
> means that driver code etc. suddenly needs to care about endian 
> conversions.
however some hardware is wired up for big endian (the linksys NSLU2 springs to mind) and hence is a pain to get little endian linux running on (i belive the network now works in little endian mode but the front panel lights are still broken)