From: ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk (Ben Dooks)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC v3] Better BE support for ARM
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:39:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <511E1E8D.9090503@codethink.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360752927-29331-1-git-send-email-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
On 13/02/13 10:55, Ben Dooks wrote:
> This is a smaller version of the previous series that adds some fixes
> for ARM big endian (BE8) mode on some of the latest ARMv7 systems as
> well as fix a few issues that where found whilst doing this.
>
> The new series should be less intrusive, as we alter less and use an
> assembly macro to remove anything we do not need if we are not in BE8
> mode. If it was not for secondary CPU initialisations and resume paths
> we could do this with a pre-boot shim for loading from LE boot loaders.x
>
> Since the issue of the ATAGS endian-ness is still in discussion, this
> has been removed from the series. If the system was booted from an LE
> enviromnent which uses FDT, then this patch set should work. The ATAGS
> code will be posted as a separate series.
>
> The fixes for ASID allocation when big endian has already been sent to
> the patch system.
Russell, any objections to get this pulled for 3.9-rc series?
--
Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/
Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-13 10:55 [RFC v3] Better BE support for ARM Ben Dooks
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 1/9] ARM: fix ARCH_IXP4xx usage of ARCH_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN Ben Dooks
2013-02-18 19:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 2/9] ARM: fixup_pv_table bug when CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 Ben Dooks
2013-02-19 12:04 ` Dave Martin
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 3/9] ARM: asm: Add ARM_BE8() assembly helper Ben Dooks
2013-02-14 4:27 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-19 12:07 ` Dave Martin
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 4/9] ARM: set BE8 if LE in head code Ben Dooks
2013-02-14 4:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 5/9] ARM: pl01x debug code endian fix Ben Dooks
2013-02-19 12:27 ` Dave Martin
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 6/9] ARM: twd: data " Ben Dooks
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 7/9] ARM: smp_scu: data endian fixes Ben Dooks
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 8/9] highbank: enable big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-02-13 10:55 ` [PATCH 9/9] mvebu: support running big-endian Ben Dooks
2013-02-15 11:39 ` Ben Dooks [this message]
2013-02-19 12:00 ` [RFC v3] Better BE support for ARM Dave Martin
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