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by tyingq 1870 days ago
Yeah, you can find an ARM big endian distribution of, for example NetBSD. No Linux that I can find. Apparently boot issues are a bit tricky.
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erk__ 1870 days ago
I have found a Gentoo distribution with big endian for the raspberry pi 3, so it is out there https://github.com/zeldin/linux-1/releases
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rjsw 1870 days ago
I'm fairly sure that NetBSD/arm switches to big endian once the kernel is running, the boot process is unchanged.
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tyingq 1870 days ago
The thing holding it back for Rpi4 is UEFI+ACPI, so I assume there's some boot process changes.
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rvp-x 1870 days ago
ACPI is problematic in big endian.
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Nursie 1870 days ago
You used to be able to get debian arm-be, but that was a good 15 years ago.
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