[PATCH 6] ARM: support big/little endian switching in "bootz".

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Dec 23 05:47:08 EST 2010


On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 07:55:54PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com> writes:
> 
> >> ARM: support big/little endian switching in "bootz".
> 
> > don't we need to update bootm and bootu too?
> 
> Probably. I've never used bootu, so it would be best if someone familiar
> with it made the change (or at least tested it).

For bootu there will be no simple way to recognize the endianess. The
image started here is a raw binary image without any header information.
We'll probably need a command line switch to switch the endianess
manually.

Sascha


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