From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk (Ben Dooks) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:33:27 +0100 Subject: v3.10 - big endian core support In-Reply-To: <20130712140643.2a3f1c68@skate> References: <20130712134726.0a909165@skate> <51DFEF75.8080600@codethink.co.uk> <20130712140643.2a3f1c68@skate> Message-ID: <51DFF797.8080100@codethink.co.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 12/07/13 13:06, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Ben Dooks, > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:58:45 +0100, Ben Dooks wrote: > >>> Yeah, the Thumb2 code is not supported by Ben Dooks patches, it's part >>> of the TODO-list. I think Ben said he would probably not have much time >>> to work on this. I might be able to spare some time on this, so just >>> let me know if I should start working on this. If I remember correctly, >>> it's mainly the fixup_pv_table code that needed some Thumb2/BE love. >>> >>> Will, is getting Thumb2 working a requirement to get the BE support >>> merged, or can we for now make the BE option depends on !THUMB2_KERNEL ? >> >> I would like to sort out getting this code merged as it seems to have >> been tested by several people now outside Codethink. > > I briefly talked with Will this week at LCE, and apparently he was > generally ok with the patches. He only mentioned that the series should > be split between core ARM stuff (that goes through Russell's tree), and > the platform-specific changes, that go through the different > maintainers tree. The 311/be/core series which was the first posted has a few machine specific bits in it (vexpress, highbank and mvebu) but is mainly the ARM core code and bits of peripheral specific support which still live under arch/arm. I left there there as they're fairly small patches and would tend to get lost. I can remove these before asking RMK to pull the core support and possibly the atag/boot-endian patches. >> I could try doing the THUMB2 support, but I do not have a lot of >> experience with building THUMB2 kernels. > > Ok. Let me know if you need some help. I'd really like to see this BE > work make it into 3.12. Thanks for the testing. I'll see if I can get some time in early next week to re-test and send against 3.11-rc series. -- Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius