> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:45 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > >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 > > > Fair enough. Has anyone got big-endian au1xxx working ever? > I'm reasonably flexible to use mipsel, since this is a new board, > although all our other products are mipseb. > > Since big doesn't work as far as I can see. This must a regression > as I'm sure I had built a running kernel a month or two back. > Currently building a pre-christmas linux-mips snapshot to see if that > works. > > If that doesn't work I'll just start using a mipsel version as I would > be wary of using big endian if no one else is. > > JP I have Au1550 running in big endian mode and Linux kernel running on it. The Linux kernel was compiled big endian using BE toolchain. Prashant
