From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:23:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.129]:13581 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:23:35 +0000 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1NDHHSk013270; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:17:17 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1NDHHou013269; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:17:17 GMT Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:17:17 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: JP Foster Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Big Endian au1550 Message-ID: <20050223131717.GB9639@linux-mips.org> References: <1109157737.16445.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <000301c5199d$3154ad40$0300a8c0@Exterity.local> <1109160313.16445.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1109160313.16445.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7322 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:05:13PM +0000, JP Foster wrote: > 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. Plenty of machines are using big endian and can't even be configured to little endian, so even in case you're hitting a problem it can't be very significant or even fundamental. Ralf