Re: [PATCH 0/6] MIPS: OCTEON: Patches to enable Little Endian

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Hi,

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:34:52PM +0000, Paul Martin wrote:
> Octeon II CPUs can switch from Big Endian to Little Endian freely
> even in kernel/supervisor mode.

You are enabling it on all OCTEONS. Is that valid? At least octeon-usb
still needs to be fixed for little-endian mode.

> These patches allow an EdgeRouterPro to boot in LE mode with no
> hardware modifications.  They have not been subjected to extensive
> testing yet and should be considered experimental.  (I have seen some
> strange memory corruption in libstdc++ which I haven't yet been able
> to trace.)

Which drivers did you test? Did you test e.g. octeon-md5?

Definitely not ready for merging.

A.





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