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Gloriously useless :)

The indy kernel is (or was?) the only big endian kernel of 9front, which is a useful thing to have.

I’m surprised none of the 9front guys have explored big endian mode on raspberry pi. They don’t seem like they’d be turned off by the perversity of it.

But they must do something with SPARC, right?

There is a SPARC compiler and linker but no kernel. So far no one has had the interest to get some old SPARC hardware and do the hacking. There is a SPARC instruction emulator on the system that I used to test some libc modifications recently.

I'm surprised it doesn't support POWER - old Macs have to be more available than SGI kit.

(Though I'll also agree with sibling comment - if the goal was "test BE support on readily available hardware" I'd 100% use Raspberry Pis, since ARM has a BE mode. NetBSD supports it, for instance.)

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