Initial big-endian support series
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jun 20 12:12:09 EDT 2013
Dear Ben Dooks,
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:36:36 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:
> This updates the kernel support for building big-endian kernels
> and updating the core drivers to deal with the endian swap as
> needed.
>
> This series does not include the fixups for ATAGs so it will require
> being booted with fdt. As a note, we do not currently disable the
> ATAGs options for the system (although we could) as there will be a
> set of patches following on to deal with booting BE kernel on LE
> systems.
I have tested both series on an Armada XP based platform and I confirm
that I'm able to boot successfully with a BE8 kernel and into a BE8
userspace. Nice!
Would it be possible to get this merged?
> I have not had time to test it on THUMB2 kernels. There is still
> fixup work to be done for these which will require more time.
I might have some time in the near future to look at that, if you don't
do it in the mean time, of course.
Thanks!
Thomas
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