Big endian working?

Marc Zyngier marc.zyngier at arm.com
Wed Apr 9 09:35:34 PDT 2014


On 09/04/14 17:17, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> On 9 April 2014 02:38, Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>> For BE8, I think we should just try to do the right thing before
>> we see mass deployments of broken boot loaders.
> 
> Agreed. For any BE work we've done it was stated that
> it should work with regular LE bootloaders. In fact any system
> should be able to switch between LE and BE images without
> any other changes, not even bootloader setting or variable.

Yup.

And from a slightly different perspective, kvmtool has no idea whether
it is booting a BE or LE guest, and I'd very much like to keep it
blissfully unaware.

Thanks,

	M.
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