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From: thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com (Thomas Petazzoni)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 02/10] ARM: fixup_pv_table bug when CPU_ENDIAN_BE8
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:09:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130620180954.7448d824@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C2DF82.3030404@codethink.co.uk>

Dear Ben Dooks,

On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:54:58 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote:

> > Also in
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-February/150784.html,
> > the same reviewer suggested to name the macro BE8() to make it fit like
> > ARM() and THUMB() in the margin left by the indentation of assembly
> > code. And also to add LE() to make the above code look like:
> >
> > BE8(	bic ip, ip, #0xff000000)
> > BE8(	orr ip, ip, r6, lsl#24)
> > LE(	bic ip, ip, #0x000000ff)
> > LE(	orr ip, ip, r6)
> 
> Actually, that doesn't work as LE is not the inverse of BE8 as
> it could also be when the kernel is being compiled in BE32.

Aah, correct. In BE32, data and instructions have the same endianness.

Thanks,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-19 12:36 Initial big-endian support series Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 01/10] ARM: fix ARCH_IXP4xx usage of ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 17:30   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-06-20 11:07     ` Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 02/10] ARM: fixup_pv_table bug when CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 17:33   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-06-20 10:54     ` Ben Dooks
2013-06-20 16:09       ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 03/10] ARM: asm: Add ARM_BE8() assembly helper Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 04/10] ARM: set BE8 if LE in head code Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 05/10] ARM: pl01x debug code endian fix Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 06/10] ARM: twd: data " Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 07/10] ARM: smp_scu: data endian fixes Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 08/10] highbank: enable big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 09/10] mvebu: support running big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-06-19 12:36 ` [PATCH 10/10] vexpress: add big endian support Ben Dooks
2013-06-20 16:12 ` Initial big-endian support series Thomas Petazzoni
2013-06-27 17:16 ` Ben Dooks

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