From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: stanley.miao@windriver.com (stanley.miao) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:23:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] support ARM BE8 mode on a little endian machine In-Reply-To: References: <1295253729-23153-1-git-send-email-stanley.miao@windriver.com> <1295253729-23153-3-git-send-email-stanley.miao@windriver.com> Message-ID: <4D3418A0.7050504@windriver.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Catalin Marinas wrote: > On 17 January 2011 08:42, Stanley.Miao wrote: > >> When BE8 kernel is running on a little endian machine, the kernel endian >> mode need to be converted at the begining of the startup procedure with >> the instruction "setend be". >> > > Can we not let the boot loader do this? It could also prepare the tags > as big endian. > > Yes, the bootloader can also do this. However, it is dangerous to modify the bootloader. If the new boot loader can't work, it is difficult to update the bootloader again. So, I choose to modify Linux kernel. Stanley. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: