On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 02:11:23PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote: > 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. big-endian ARM? No wonder it's not been 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. Then running on a 3.10 kernel seems pretty pointless for such hardware, just use the latest kernel, as this isn't a regression from a working 3.9 kernel release. thanks, greg k-h -- 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