This document lists some reasons [0]

• Growing interest in running entire OS in little-endian mode – Ease porting of programs from other architectures – Ease porting of programs which access files containing LE binary data – Ease communication with GPUs • New OpenPower Consortium – IBM, Google, Tyan, Nvidia, Mellanox

Also, see [1].

[0] http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/7/70/Kvm-forum-2013-Mac... [1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-...