On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 04:01:51PM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote: > This patch provides support for the new Power PC litte endian (LE) mode. The > LE mode only differs in the way the instructions and data are stored in memory > thus there is no real need to duplicate the ppc64 code. > > However some compilation's options, especially for the purgatory, differ > between little and big endian mode's support. A new "SUBARCH" build variable > is introduced which is currently only used for PPC64 to specify the > endianness. > > Another set of changes in this patch is fixing minor endianess issues in the > ppc64 code and fix an alignment issue raised on Power7 little endian mode. > Among these fixes, the check on the kernel binary endianess is removed, > since we can imagine kexecing a LE kernel from a BE environment, as far as > the specified root filesystem and initrd file are containing the right > binaries. > > This patch depends on the patch "kexec/ppc64: use common architecture > fs2dt.c file" I sent earlier on the kexec mailing list. > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com> Hi Laurent, I have applied this. But could you let me know how to (cross) compile it?
