On 09/06/16 07:51, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > Hi > > > On 2016-06-08 20:31, Matthew Leach wrote: >> From: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Add initial support for big endian by always writing the pte >> in le32. Note, revisit if hardware capable of doing big endian >> fetches. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Just to keep my curiosity satisfied - what's the reason to use > big-endian on ARM? Because we can. It was interesting to try. > Good luck with fixing the kernel and userspace codes, which usually > assume little-endian is the only possible order! We did a BE8 build of the baserock userspace a year or two ago and found mostly it just worked. I think Matt is using that image for testing the work he's been doing. I've no idea if we would ever bother trying to build Debian for BE8 or similar, as not sure it would be worth trying. -- Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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