[PATCH 01/17] ARM: add CPU_BE8_BOOT_LE configuration

Ben Dooks ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk
Sat Feb 9 11:46:26 EST 2013


On 09/02/2013 04:10, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Ben Dooks wrote:
>
>> Add configuration for booting a BE8 system from a LE boot 
>> environment.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks at codethink.co.uk>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mm/Kconfig |    7 +++++++
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
>> index 3fd629d..70e2ad9 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
>> @@ -688,6 +688,13 @@ config CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
>>  	help
>>  	  Support for the BE-8 (big-endian) mode on ARMv6 and ARMv7 
>> processors.
>>
>> +config CPU_BE8_BOOT_LE
>> +	bool "Boot BE system from LE loader"
>> +	depends on CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
>> +	help
>> +	  Support for running BE-8 (big-endian) from a boot environment 
>> that is
>> +	  running in LE mode.
>> +
>
> This looks strange to have a patch that only adds a config symbol 
> with
> no user.  Could you move it later in the series, or fold it with, 
> say,
> patch #4?

Yes, will look at folding it in.

-- 
Ben




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