[PATCH v2 06/19] ARM: mark CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 as deprecated

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2026, at 23:57, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
>> At the moment, there are no known bugs with big-endian ARMv7 mode, but
>> it does break occasionally and require someone to fix it.  By marking
>> the code as 'depends on BROKEN' now, it will no longer be covered by CI
>> testing. If any users remain, they can keep patching out the dependency
>> but are more likely to run into regressions.
>>
>> The big-endian ARMv5 support (CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE32) in contrast is
>> still used on Intel IXP4xx platform, and is the only currently supported
>> mode there, so this one can still be enabled.
>
> If IXP4xx is the only known remaining user, would it make sense for
> CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to instead depend on ARCH_IXP4XX || BROKEN? Is BE32
> mode known to work correctly on any other platforms?

This is essentially what we have, just expressed the other way round:
all ARMv4/v4t/v5 platforms depend on CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN, except
for IXP4xx, which depends on CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN.

        Arnd