MIPSel

MIPSEL refers to a MIPS architecture using a little endian byte order. Since almost all MIPS microprocessors have the capability of operating with either little endian or big endian byte order, the term is used only for processors where little endian byte order has been pre-determined.

Software packages and cross-compiler tools use the mipsel vs. mips suffixes to denote availability for little endian and big endian systems, respectively.