What is mipsbe architecture?

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Januszzz · Post by **Januszzz** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:49 am

Like in subject, I've bought Mikrotik routerboard 433 and it has "mipsbe" architecture. Is this derivative of usual mips architecture or what?

Or maybe someone having experience in installing Gentoo on such arch?

Regards,

Janusz.

gringo · Post by **gringo** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:32 am

i´m not sure either but i´d say that means mips with big endian byteorder.

cheers

Januszzz · Post by **Januszzz** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:17 am

ok, mayby I should ask on gentoo-embedded, guys there know lots of things

gringo · Post by **gringo** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:46 am

mayby I should ask on gentoo-embedded

yes, i would ask there too, i´m not sure but i always thought mips were bi-endian, IOW, they can be configured for both big and little endian, so that i´m quite confused with the name too.

cheers

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:00 pm

Usually when you write an OS, you choose one endianness and stick with it, that's why there's mipsel and mipsbe. If you have to specify the endianness on every number the cpu processes, it'd add a lot of bloat.

I have not had any experience with mipsbe, all my MIPS machines are mipsel.

Januszzz · Post by **Januszzz** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:16 pm

Thanks!