Re: Introduce support for little endian PowerPC
From: Gary Thomas <hidden>
Date: 2010-10-01 12:05:28
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On 10/01/2010 05:30 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Kumar Gala[off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On Oct 1, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Ian Munsie wrote:quoted
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.
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