Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: R3000A question ??? Message-ID: Date: 31 Oct 90 23:56:26 GMT References: <14900018@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <42474@mips.mips.COM> <1092@dg.dg.com> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Lines: 7 In-Reply-To: lewine@dg-rtp.dg.com's message of 30 Oct 90 14:45:29 GMT ..> R6000s and R3000As with a "reverse endian" status bit for dynamic byte swapping... I'd almost venture that the RE bit should be per-page - except that that would louse up caches (you wouldn't know how to set up the controls for the byte swap logic until the data had been fetched from cache). -- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]