[PATCH 2/3] support ARM BE8 mode on a little endian machine

[stanley.miao]

Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On 17 January 2011 08:42, Stanley.Miao <stanley.miao at windriver.com> wrote:
>   
>> When BE8 kernel is running on a little endian machine, the kernel endian
>> mode need to be converted at the begining of the startup procedure with
>> the instruction "setend be".
>>     
>
> Can we not let the boot loader do this? It could also prepare the tags
> as big endian.
>
>   
Yes, the bootloader can also do this. However, it is dangerous to modify 
the
bootloader. If the new boot loader can't work, it is difficult to update 
the
bootloader again. So, I choose to modify Linux kernel.

Stanley.
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