Big endian working?

Taras Kondratiuk
2014-04-08T09:14:22Z

On 04/08/2014 10:54 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello Taras,
>
> I'm currently trying to get ARM BE to work on Armada XP. I'm pretty
> sure it used to work on 3.13, but now I'm testing 3.13 and 3.14 and it
> doesn't boot here (it hangs even before "Uncompressing kernel...",
> apparently while relocating the kernel image before decompression).
>
> Ben Dooks told me that the ARM BE kernel works for you. Can you confirm
> which kernel version you're using, and if you've applied any patch?
> Also, can you confirm which toolchain and toolchain version you're
> using?

Hi Tom

To boot BE kernel from LE u-boot I'm using a few patches on top of
upstream kernel.

git://git.linaro.org/people/taras.kondratiuk/linux.git arm-be-boot-le

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Ben Dooks (1):
ARM: add CPU_BE8_BOOT_LE configuration

Nico Pitre (1):
ARM: ensure loader information in LE format for BE kernels

arch/arm/boot/compressed/Makefile | 5 ++++-
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 7 ++++---
arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.in | 14 ++++++++++++++
arch/arm/mm/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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Taras Kondratiuk