From: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:36:20 +1000
> The aim is not to implement little endian binaries but to assist
> running portions of code in little endian mode. The thought is we could
> hook up qemu to it and avoid having to byteswap.
>
> While ppc has byteswap integer loads it does not have byteswap floating
> point loads and a byteswap involves loading into the integer unit,
> performing the byteswap, storing to a temporary location and loading
> into the floating point unit. Rather slow.
Doesn't PPC have a PTE bit that does endian swapping? Wouldn't
that be easier to use for something like qemu?
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