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Re: Definition of Big Endianness of the PCI Bus



There is no big endian PCI bus.  When implemented correctly, AD[7:0] in
a 32-bit transfer always carry data whose address mod 4 = 0 whether the
bus is implemented in a little endian host or a big endian host.  This
is evident in that when a big endian processor wants to write a pci
configuration register on an interface, it has to swap the bytes first
before it write.