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

[Lennert Buytenhek]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 04:45:19PM -0500, Woodruff, Richard wrote:

> > > 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.

Hmmm.  So bit [7] of the system control register is ignored entirely,
and if you write a 1 to it, nothing at all happens and the system
boots as usual?  (To test, add a line "OBJS += big-endian.o" to the
top of arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile.)

Does it also mean that the ARMv6 based OMAPs have the SETEND
instruction behave as NOPs?