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Re: [PATCH 05/18] powerpc: Wire up 44x little endian boot for remaining 44x targets

From: Ian Munsie <hidden>
Date: 2010-10-06 01:28:32
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Excerpts from Josh Boyer's message of Fri Oct 01 21:27:37 +1000 2010:
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From: Ian Munsie <redacted>

I haven't tested booting a little endian kernel on any of these targets,
but they all claim to be 44x so my little endian trampoline should work
on all of them, so wire it up on:

bamboo
katmai
kilauea
rainer
sam440ep
sequoia
warp
yosemite
ebony
I see no reason to do this at all.  If you haven't tested them and
there is no demand, there's no reason to wire them up.  Some might
actively want to disallow LE mode anyway, like the Warp or Sam440EP.
I wasn't aware that the Warp and Sam440EP disallowed LE mode - I'll
definitely unwire them and move the ARCH_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN to just
the sub-arch's that support it.

As for the other boards, I would like to wire them up if they are able
to support LE mode - If anyone has one handy I would love to hear if
they are able to begin booting a LE kernel with these patches, or when &
how they fail.

Cheers,
-Ian
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