By then there were bi-endien PPC cores, so I'm surprised it was such an issue. https://twitter.com/typhoonfilsy/status/754433652394647552 …
the PPC LE mode is "weird" when interacting with hardware. First few pages of http://www.nxp.com/files/archives/doc/app_note/MPC823LEM.pdf … explain it.
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the tl;dr is that it's really storing data in big endian format and doing a ^ on the low address bits on unaligned accesses.
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