[RFC] arm: use built-in byte swap function

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Fri Feb 8 15:04:19 EST 2013


On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Woodhouse, David wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 18:13 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > 
> > However, the biggest reason not to use libgcc is that we want to control
> > what gets used in the kernel - for example, no floating point, and no
> > use of 64 x 64bit division.
> 
> Which is all very sensible. But there's no particular reason we couldn't
> add a __bswap[sd]i2 to the kernel's version of libgcc if we wanted to.

Absolutely.


Nicolas



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