[yocto] Big endian ARM machine with NEON wanted

Andreas Müller schnitzeltony at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 13 23:34:33 PDT 2016


On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans at topic.nl> wrote:
> On 13-10-16 19:20, Andreas Müller wrote:
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>> Does anybody know a big endian and common machine supporting NEON? I
>> would need one for testing my port of portaudio.
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> Most ARM systems can run in both big-endian and little-endian modes.
> Somewhere early during boot this choice is being made.
>
> Having said that, since big-endian machines are getting rare, there's very
> little support for big-endian ARM systems. Most (if not all) boards can run
> big-endian, but software support is usually lacking, in particular in the
> bootloader parts where this matters.
>
> If it's just for testing some software, maybe you can use a QEMU machine?

Does QEMU support NEON?

Andreas



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