On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 05:55 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 10/01/2010 05:30 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > > 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. > > Indeed, I thought we had killed that Windows-NT dog ~15 years ago :-)
Actually this has more to do with having to deal with code written for ARM LE :-) Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
