I wrote a similar post [1] some 16 years ago. My solution back then was to install Debian for PowerPC on QEMU using qemu-system-ppc.

But Hans's post uses user-mode emulation with qemu-mips, which avoids having to set up a whole big-endian system in QEMU. It is a very interesting approach I was unaware of. I'm pretty sure qemu-mips was available back in 2010, but I'm not sure if the gcc-mips-linux-gnu cross-compiler was readily available back then. I suspect my PPC-based solution might have been the only convenient way to solve this problem at the time.

Thanks for sharing it here. It was nice to go down memory lane and also learn a new way to solve the same problem.

[1] https://susam.net/big-endian-on-little-endian.html

"memory lane" !!