support for operating Kirkwood in big endian mode?
Mikael Pettersson
mikpe at it.uu.se
Fri Apr 22 14:46:45 EDT 2011
Nicolas Pitre writes:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> > The Kirkwood docs specify that the core can be operated in both big
> > and little endian modes, but indicate that some peripherals in the
> > SoC require drivers to perform byteswapping in some case for big
> > endian operation.
> >
> > Does the kernel support operating a Kirkwood in big endian mode?
>
> It was never attempted. So no, the kernel doesn't support Kirkwood in
> BE.
I see. Thanks for confirming that.
/Mikael
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