Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Display CPU byteorder in /proc/cpuinfo

[David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>]

On 01/21/2015 10:38 AM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:22:30AM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> I believe this patch is mostly useful for cores that can boot in both LE
>> and BE so being able to tell the byteorder from cpuinfo can be helpful
>> at times. Having readelf and other tools in your userland may not always
>> be the case, but you surely have "cat" :)
>>
>> So that patch looks good to me but i think the #ifdefs can be avoided.
>> Can we use
>>
>> if (config_enabled(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) {
>
> Kernel has already support making whole .config available in /proc
> where you can check such things.
>
You  mean like this?:

~ # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep 'CPU.*ENDIAN='
CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN=y