[PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: Make CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depend on BROKEN

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Wed Sep 24 09:09:58 PDT 2025


On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:40:25 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Big-endian arm64 configurations are vanishingly rare, yet we still claim
> to support them in Linux despite very limited testing or visible
> interest. Supporting big-endian adds unnecessary burden to reviewers and
> contributors which, without any known active users, is hard to justify.
> For example, recent work to improve our futex routines and to implement
> nested virtualisation support is non-trivially complicated by having to
> support both big- and little-endianness.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: Kconfig: Make CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depend on BROKEN
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/1cf89b6bf660

Cheers,
-- 
Will

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