[ECOS] Big Endian port

[Jonathan Larmour]

"Agarwal, Lomesh" wrote:
> 
> I am trying to port RedBoot for Xscale from Little endian to Big endian. Can
> someone help me in identifying the items I need to take care.

The biggest problem is usually interfacing with devices. Depending on the
hardware you may need to byte swap every time you access them. A driver
expecting LE all the time wouldn't expect this.

The generic ARM HAL supports big endian operation though - we have it for
ye olde PID.

Jifl
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