DreamPlug plug computer

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Feb 2 16:24:00 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:23:33AM -0500, Peter King wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:41:51AM -0500, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> 
> > Debian provides arm install disks with along with the man ones. I've yet 
> > to pin down the difference between arm and armel (likely the level of 
> 
> arm = big-endian
> armel = little-endian

No.

arm   = little endian, old ABI.  Pretty much dead now.
armel = little endian, new ABI (much faster floating point emulation
        by about a factor of 10, and still efficient on hardware floating
        point hardware).
armeb = dead big endian port with old ABI.

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