On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:22:16AM +0000, JP Foster wrote: > Hi all, > In the linux-mips cvs big endian operation of the au1550 is not > selectable. Is there a reason for this? > what would I need to do to get big endian support? > > The chip does run big endian, as I have yamon running on it here. > And a previously the linux-mips kernel allowed this. > The kernel will compile big end but I get an oops as the kernel > starts up I recently rewrote the endianes selection in the Kconfig menus. The individual platforms will now have to explicitly select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN rsp. SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN to indicate which endianess they support. I know that Alchemy supports big endian operation in hardware but no idea if all the Linux code is working properly, so I've been conservative and choose to limit the system to little endian until somebody reports big endianess support to be actually working. Ralf
