From: digetx@gmail.com (Dmitry Osipenko)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: trusted_foundations: Maintain CPU endianness
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:41:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <550C4DC1.3090909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550C45AB.3070703@wwwdotorg.org>
20.03.2015 19:07, Stephen Warren ?????:
> On 03/20/2015 09:36 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
>> Convert CPU reset vector address to LE to support big-endian kernel.
>
> Naively this sounds a little odd; the value here is in a CPU register all the
> time, not in memory, so I'm not sure why endianness is relevant? Presumably the
> CPU doesn't end up byte-swapping values in registers when running in BE mode or
> it takes an SMC? If it does, why don't we need
> cpu_to_le32(TF_SET_CPU_BOOT_ADDR_SMC) too?
>
> Sorry if this is a silly question; I haven't followed any of the BE kernel patches.
You absolutely right. I goofed it by replacing 'smc' with 'str' without adding
reg reverse for BE when was testing and then blindly made patch. Please ignore
it and sorry for the noise.
--
Dmitry
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-20 15:36 [PATCH] ARM: trusted_foundations: Maintain CPU endianness Dmitry Osipenko
2015-03-20 15:47 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2015-03-20 16:20 ` Dave Martin
2015-03-20 16:07 ` Stephen Warren
2015-03-20 16:41 ` Dmitry Osipenko [this message]
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