Re: [9front] Big endian hardware.

[Shawn Rutledge <lists@ecloud.org>]

> On Mar 6, 2025, at 11:20, Pär Moberg <ghostdewolf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> With NetBSD release of a Wii version and that they have a big endian release for raspberry pi 1 to 3plus, I was wondering if there is any as easily available hardware that run big endian and has a 9front port?
> I have a fascination with big endian for some reason. 
> //Pär 

An old powermac maybe?  I have a G5 at the office for testing Qt on big-endian on Linux (not that I get around to it very often): it’s fine for that sort of thing, and those machines aren’t worth much anymore, despite being quite the beasts of their time.  And you can google and find out about the Plan 9 PPC porting, discussion about Power9 and so on.

It’s good that one endian won though, IMO, so maybe we can eventually forget about “network byte order” being big-endian, and stop flipping bytes around pointlessly, especially in new protocols.  9p is little-endian (from what I read): that seems like a good choice.