Indeed good first note, it would have been better to have the topic title: 'Efforts to run big endian Linux on a Pi5'Note: I am just doing this for fun. There is no need to tell me to "just use Raspberry Pi OS", "everyone uses little endian", etc.
Anyone who is or has been involved in ASIC/silicon/VHDL/etc development that involves varying size objects (e.g. like vectorization now and what to do for the next generation), that needs to cooperate with some CPU, knows that organizations won't waste their time on it. Like also you won't pay someone to solve a puzzle in the back of a paper magazine on an easy Sunday morning. Is good brain exercise though. At least for me is it more than 2-3 decades ago that this was clear. You typically put the customer asking for BE on the (forever) waiting list unless maybe they pay upfront extra to more than compensate for the extra work, waste of time, or worse prevent destroying the company as competition is faster/better.
Statistics: Posted by redvli — Wed Dec 03, 2025 9:55 am