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From: sam@ravnborg.org (Sam Ravnborg)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] arch: Kconfig: Let all little endian architectures define CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN explicitly
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 07:08:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140813050809.GB30459@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53EA99C3.90203@gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:48:35AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> x86 and ia64 are always little endian. And another architectures may be
> little endian: mips, sh, powerpc, and m32r (may mark CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> explicitly); also arm(64) and c6x (which may be !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN).
> 
> Some drivers (e.g. some of "drivers/isdn/hisax") may only support little
> endian (CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN), and some drivers may only support big endian
> (!CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN).
> 
> So export all little endian architectures within kernel wide, so can let
> Kconfig easier for the modules which only support little endian or only
> for big endian (assume !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN is same as CPU_BIG_ENDIAN).
We need to cover three cases here:
- An arch supports only little endian
- An arch supports only big endian
- An arch may be both little and big endian

The solution you suggest assumes that an arch is either little or big endian.
But we cannot ignore the hybriads that can do both.

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-13  5:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-12 22:48 [PATCH v2] arch: Kconfig: Let all little endian architectures define CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN explicitly Chen Gang
2014-08-13  5:08 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2014-08-13  5:32   ` Chen Gang
2014-08-13  6:51     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-08-13  7:44       ` Chen Gang
2014-08-13  8:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-08-13  8:16   ` Chen Gang
2014-08-22 11:09   ` Michal Marek
2014-08-23  2:31     ` Chen Gang

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