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Topic: WGT624 is a BIG Endian?

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While I was reading through the Netgear WGT624 WiP, the comments on this but OpenWRT doesn't support big endian mipses out of the box (found in new busybox section) caught my eyes. Does this mean a Netgear WGT624 is a MIPS BIG Endian?

From SeattleWireless : "Apply a long word (4 bytes) byte swap to change Little/Big-endian and make this readable on a x86 machine."

So it looks like the wgt624 is big endian, as the x86 is little endian.

It is partly true that we currently do not support big endian hardware, anyway, the ar53x port is big endian and needs a big endian toolchain (mipseb)

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