Re: [PATCH v3 12/13] arm64: Kbuild: Remove vestigial big-endian support
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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-22 15:10:37
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On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 11:24:36AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2026 at 03:52:14PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:quoted
-choice - prompt "Endianness" - default CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN - help - Select the endianness of data accesses performed by the CPU. Userspace - applications will need to be compiled and linked for the endianness - that is selected here. - -config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN - bool "Build big-endian kernel" - depends on BROKEN - help - Say Y if you plan on running a kernel with a big-endian userspace. - -config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN - bool "Build little-endian kernel" - help - Say Y if you plan on running a kernel with a little-endian userspace. - This is usually the case for distributions targeting arm64.Running the checks through an LLM found that CONFIG_GVE depends on X86 || CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN, so it won't be enabled anymore. I think that's the only positive test of CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN.
Would you like me to add a '|| arm64' in there? I was a bit wary of doing so, given that I don't have a way to test it. Removing CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN forces the issue, somewhat. Will