Hi Marcus > > From: Marcus Comstedt [mailto:mar...@mc.pp.se] > > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2019 4:36 AM > > To: Rick Chen > > Cc: U-Boot Mailing List; Rick Jian-Zhi Chen(陳建志); K.C. Kuen-Chern Lin(林坤 > > 成) > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] riscv: tools: Add big endian target support to > > prelink-riscv > > > > > > Hi Rick, > > > > Rick Chen <rickche...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Thanks for your efforts about the support for big endian ELFs. > > > But I don't have big endian toolchain to verify. > > > > I don't think anyone has a big endian toolchain for riscv at this juncture. > > :-) > > (No specification for big/bi endian has been nailed down yet, AFAIK, > > although > > there has been discussion about how to implement it.) > > > > I expect the patch to work for symmetry reasons - the places that need > > byteswapping when the host is little endian and the target is big endian are > > exactly the same as the places that need byteswapping when the host is big > > endian and the target is little endian (a case which I have tested), so > > it's just a > > matter of keeping track of the endianness of the host (something which > > U-Boot does internally already) versus the endianness of the target (which > > is > > handled by this patch). > > > > Merging this right now is probably about as useful as merging 128-bit ELF > > support, but I don't think it really adds any maintainence burden, so it > > might > > be simpler than keeping it around in patchwork. It's your call. :-) > >
Thanks for your explanation. :) I have applied to u-boot-riscv/master, thanks! Regards, Rick > > > > // Marcus > > > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de https://lists.denx.de/listinfo/u-boot
