On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Kumar Gala <ga...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > 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.
I'm with Kumar on this one. Why would we want to support this? I can't say I would be very willing to help anyone run in LE mode, let alone have it randomly selectable. josh _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
