On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Ian Munsie wrote:

> Some PowerPC processors can be run in either big or little endian modes, some
> others can map selected pages of memory as little endian, which allows the 
> same
> thing. Until now we have only supported the default big endian mode in Linux.
> This patch set introduces little endian support for the 44x family of PowerPC
> processors.

>From a community aspect is anyone actually going to use this?  Is this going 
>to be the equivalent of voyager on x86?  I've got nothing against some of the 
>endian clean ups this introduces.  However the changes to misc_32.S are a bit 
>ugly from a readability point of view.  Just seems like this is likely to 
>bit-rot pretty quickly.

- k

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