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Subject: Re: Big Endian au1550
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Fair enough. Has anyone got big-endian au1xxx working ever?
I'm reasonably flexible to use mipsel, since this is a new board,
although all our other products are mipseb.

Since big doesn't work as far as I can see. This must a regression
as I'm sure I had built a running kernel a month or two back.
Currently building a pre-christmas linux-mips snapshot to see if that
works.

If that doesn't work I'll just start using a mipsel version as I would
be wary of using big endian if no one else is.

JP


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:45 +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
>I recently rewrote the endianes selection in the Kconfig menus.  The
>individual platforms will now have to explicitly select
>SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN rsp. SYS_SUPPORTS_BIG_ENDIAN to indicate
>which endianess they support.  I know that Alchemy supports big endian
>operation in hardware but no idea if all the Linux code is working
>properly, so I've been conservative and choose to limit the system
>to little endian until somebody reports big endianess support to be
>actually working.
>
>  Ralf