On 17/12/14 06:35, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 06:22:43AM +0000, Sheng Yong wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> Linux 3.10.y does not support BE8 well, in result, we meet BE8 issues when >> enabling it. So we hope that these BE8-related patchset can be merged to >> stable 3.10.y to make BE8 avaliable. > > What is "BE8"? This big-endian configuration for ARMv6 and newer. The core support has been in the kernel for a while, but there have been issues as it is not being well tested. It is called BE8 as the previous (ARMv5) is called BE32 and is not compatible with BE8. > And how is this a bugfix series? It really looks like it is a new > feature you are asking to be backported here, which isn't ok for stable > kernels, as is explained in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. This series looks like a lot of the fixes I made when doing the BE8 work to test big-endian operation on ARM during part of a customer project using Baserock. These are useful fixes if you want to use ARM in big-endian however there is very little pre-built big endian distribution available to test with. -- Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html