[PATCH 00/12] arm64: Remove unused big-endian support

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Tue Aug 11 07:54:59 PDT 2026


On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:01:19 +0100,
Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Big-endian support on arm64 (CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) has depended on
> BROKEN since 1cf89b6bf660 ("arm64: Kconfig: Make CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depend
> on BROKEN") and has already seen some clean-up patches removing some of
> the unused support code (e.g. 5276ea17a23c ("lib/crc: arm64: Assume a
> little-endian kernel")).
> 
> Finish the job, and remove the remaining big-endian support code from
> arm64. Note that the SETEND emulation for 32-bit tasks remains and so
> some of the mixed-endian EL0 helpers are retained.
> 
> I've broken this down into fairly coarse chunks, as it seemed a lot
> easier to manage than one giant patch (even with the Kconfig being
> effectively disabled already) and not all of it is just mindless
> deletion. Despite that, I'm anticipating the whole thing going via the
> arm64 tree.

FWIW:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>

	M.

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