From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: digetx@gmail.com (Dmitry Osipenko) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:41:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: trusted_foundations: Maintain CPU endianness In-Reply-To: <550C45AB.3070703@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1426865807-22981-1-git-send-email-digetx@gmail.com> <550C45AB.3070703@wwwdotorg.org> Message-ID: <550C4DC1.3090909@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.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