From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:35:34 +0100 Subject: Big endian working? In-Reply-To: References: <20140408095446.0520dd28@skate> <53450D3A.7030909@linaro.org> <4880190.MJBhke5aDa@wuerfel> Message-ID: <534576D6.4060003@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 09/04/14 17:17, Victor Kamensky wrote: > On 9 April 2014 02:38, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> For BE8, I think we should just try to do the right thing before >> we see mass deployments of broken boot loaders. > > Agreed. For any BE work we've done it was stated that > it should work with regular LE bootloaders. In fact any system > should be able to switch between LE and BE images without > any other changes, not even bootloader setting or variable. Yup. And from a slightly different perspective, kvmtool has no idea whether it is booting a BE or LE guest, and I'd very much like to keep it blissfully unaware. Thanks, M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...