Re: Introduce support for little endian PowerPC

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Kumar Gala [off-list ref] wrot=
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On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Ian Munsie wrote:

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Some PowerPC processors can be run in either big or little endian modes,=

 some

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others can map selected pages of memory as little endian, which allows t=

he same

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thing. Until now we have only supported the default big endian mode in L=

inux.

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This patch set introduces little endian support for the 44x family of Po=

werPC

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processors.

From a community aspect is anyone actually going to use this? =A0Is this =

going to be the equivalent of voyager on x86? =A0I've got nothing against s=
ome of the endian clean ups this introduces. =A0However the changes to misc=
_32.S are a bit ugly from a readability point of view. =A0Just seems like t=
his 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