Big endian working?

Taras Kondratiuk taras.kondratiuk at linaro.org
Tue Apr 8 02:14:22 PDT 2014


On 04/08/2014 10:54 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello Taras,
>
> I'm currently trying to get ARM BE to work on Armada XP. I'm pretty
> sure it used to work on 3.13, but now I'm testing 3.13 and 3.14 and it
> doesn't boot here (it hangs even before "Uncompressing kernel...",
> apparently while relocating the kernel image before decompression).
>
> Ben Dooks told me that the ARM BE kernel works for you. Can you confirm
> which kernel version you're using, and if you've applied any patch?
> Also, can you confirm which toolchain and toolchain version you're
> using?

Hi Tom

To boot BE kernel from LE u-boot I'm using a few patches on top of 
upstream kernel.

git://git.linaro.org/people/taras.kondratiuk/linux.git arm-be-boot-le

----------------------------------------------------------------
Ben Dooks (1):
       ARM: add CPU_BE8_BOOT_LE configuration

Nico Pitre (1):
       ARM: ensure loader information in LE format for BE kernels

  arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile       |    5 ++++-
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S         |    7 ++++---
  arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in |   14 ++++++++++++++
  arch/arm/mm/Kconfig                     |    7 +++++++
  4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

-- 
Taras Kondratiuk



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