[PATCH v2 3/5] ARM: restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN configuration option

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Oct 28 07:00:22 PDT 2014


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:31:33PM +0800, Xia Kaixu wrote:
> Some platforms don't work when CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is enabled.
> So It can get a dependency on !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM_STRICT.

What if big endian wants to build a multiplatform kernel?

This doesn't look right to me.  Instead, we should be arranging for
those which do not work in BE mode to depend on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN.
Yes, it's a larger patch but IMHO is a much more correct solution.

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