Anybody know if there is a root filesystem for xscale big endian in the ELDK? I've used the ELDK4.0 for ARM little endian, but it obviously doesn't work for my IXP425 base board.

You can use debian or buildroot for a big endian arm rootfs.

http://armeb.debian.net/debian-armeb/ http://buildroot.uclibc.org/

Regards, Martijn de Gouw