[PATCH] MTD: OMAP2-NAND: Fix partition reading from board info

Woodruff, Richard r-woodruff2 at ti.com
Mon Aug 4 17:45:19 EDT 2008


> > The most visible BE-ARM seems to be Intel's IXP network processors.
>
> The IXPs are one of the few cases where the vendors _ships an all-BE
> software development environment by default_ -- but that doesn't mean
> that BE doesn't work on ARM CPUs where the vendor ships a LE software
> development environment by default (BE has certainly worked on all
> ARM CPUs I've ever tried it on).

I wonder how many shipping systems use LE.  A grep of current ARM Linux Kconfig's only shows 3 IXP systems setting CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN. Perhaps you are correct about ability but few seem to use it. Seems like a trivia question for ARM Ltd.

At any rate all OMAPs have been hardwired.

Regards,
Richard W.




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