From: ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk (Ben Dooks)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP4: sleep: byteswap data for big-endian
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 19:21:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D58E3E.2010408@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGo_u6oKpRFnPAWaqr9NTNAJB+m56jiDgBUgvsiZpaQ-3SF2kw@mail.gmail.com>
On 14/01/14 17:56, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Victor Kamensky
> <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> When BE kernel is built Makefile does take of compiling code in BE
>> mode. I.e all proper flags like -mbig-endian and -Wl,--be8 will be set.
>
> Agreed, and I assume you cannot instead switch to LE mode when
> entering assembly assuming LE?
You could make it so that individual pieces of code could swap
back to big-endian, however that would introduce the possibility
of bugs if the code used a pointer to memory passed in, or refers
to a piece of data in another part of the code which is built in
big endian.
--
Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/
Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-13 15:03 [PATCH] ARM: OMAP4: sleep: byteswap data for big-endian Taras Kondratiuk
2014-01-13 15:03 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2014-01-13 15:23 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-13 15:23 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-13 15:23 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 11:14 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2014-01-14 11:14 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2014-01-14 15:51 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 15:51 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 15:51 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 17:35 ` Victor Kamensky
2014-01-14 17:35 ` Victor Kamensky
2014-01-14 17:56 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 17:56 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 19:21 ` Ben Dooks [this message]
2014-01-14 20:20 ` Victor Kamensky
2014-01-14 20:20 ` Victor Kamensky
2014-01-14 20:56 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 20:56 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 21:03 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-01-14 21:03 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-01-14 21:03 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-01-14 21:13 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 21:13 ` Nishanth Menon
2014-01-14 22:46 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2014-01-14 22:46 ` Taras Kondratiuk
2014-01-14 23:44 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-01-14 23:44 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-01-14 23:44 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2014-02-13 17:47 ` Tony Lindgren
2014-02-13 17:47 ` Tony Lindgren
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