[PATCH] ARM: OMAP4: sleep: byteswap data for big-endian

[Ben Dooks]

On 14/01/14 17:56, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Victor Kamensky
> <victor.kamensky at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> When BE kernel is built Makefile does take of compiling code in BE
>> mode. I.e all proper flags like -mbig-endian and -Wl,--be8 will be set.
>
> Agreed, and I assume you cannot instead switch to LE mode when
> entering assembly assuming LE?

You could make it so that individual pieces of code could swap
back to big-endian, however that would introduce the possibility
of bugs if the code used a pointer to memory passed in, or refers
to a piece of data in another part of the code which is built in
big endian.


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