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Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 17:52:01 +0200
From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
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       Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       Michael Jones <mlj28@cam.ac.uk>
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On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:28:21PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> > I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What
> > are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation?
> 
> Debian is indeed a valid reason.
> I wonder if it would be much work to create BE Debian as well.

There _is_ an ARM BE version of Debian.

It's not an official port, but it's not maintained any worse than
the 'official' LE ARM Debian port is.
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