On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:24:49PM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 04:10:44PM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > based on Drew's work, I've written two small patches to add support of > > ppc64le host and target. > > > > As Drew's series is not merged I don't send yet theses patches, but you > > can find them here: > > > > https://github.com/vivier/kvm-unit-tests/commits/ppc64/endianness-v1 > > > > 1- powerpc: allow to build big-endian binaries on little-endian host > > 2- powerpc: select endianness > > > > Patch 2 allows to build and test ppc64le target. > > > > I don't know what to do about these two patches: should I wait Drew's > > series is merged or should I send them now for review? > > I think post now. Possibly we can even fold them into Drew's initial > drop. That sounds good to me to. I can pick them up when I post v7. > > Btw, we should know our endianness on entry, so I'm not sure we need > the automagic FIXUP_ENDIAN stuff. Though maybe it's still the easiest > way. I looked at this a bit too and was under the impression that we're always going to start in BE, so either the bootloader or the kernel has to do the wrong endian magic to switch. Since the kernel will have to know how to do it anyway, in order to deal with a return from an rtas call, then I was thinking it'd be easiest to leave the bootloader a simple BE-only branch, and then do the wrong endian stuff in cstart64.S. It's quite possible I'm missing something though. Thanks, drew > > -- > David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code > david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ > | _way_ _around_! > http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
