Re: [PATCHv4 1/2] dt/bindings: Add the DT binding documentation for endianness

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On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 05:32:43PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 03:04:32AM +0100, Xiubo Li wrote:

> > {big,little}-endian{,-*}: these are boolean properties, if absent
> > meaning that the CPU and the Device are in the same endianness mode.

> That's not really true though. A device might usually be little-endian,
> regardless of the endianness of a CPU. Some vendors may integrate it as
> big-endian after a binding is added, and in the absence of a specified
> endianness a driver is likely to assume LE.

The default should be device specific rather than binding specific.

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