From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com>,
Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Linux MIPS List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Display CPU byteorder in /proc/cpuinfo
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:42:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BFF332.1040003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150121183817.GB644@fuloong-minipc.musicnaut.iki.fi>
On 01/21/2015 10:38 AM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:22:30AM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> I believe this patch is mostly useful for cores that can boot in both LE
>> and BE so being able to tell the byteorder from cpuinfo can be helpful
>> at times. Having readelf and other tools in your userland may not always
>> be the case, but you surely have "cat" :)
>>
>> So that patch looks good to me but i think the #ifdefs can be avoided.
>> Can we use
>>
>> if (config_enabled(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) {
>
> Kernel has already support making whole .config available in /proc
> where you can check such things.
>
You mean like this?:
~ # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep 'CPU.*ENDIAN='
CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN=y
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-21 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-19 9:02 [PATCH] MIPS: Display CPU byteorder in /proc/cpuinfo Joshua Kinard
2015-01-20 23:05 ` David Daney
2015-01-21 2:45 ` Joshua Kinard
2015-01-21 2:54 ` Joshua Kinard
2015-01-21 10:22 ` Markos Chandras
2015-01-21 11:26 ` Joshua Kinard
2015-01-21 13:49 ` Ralf Baechle
2015-01-21 18:18 ` David Daney
2015-01-21 18:38 ` Aaro Koskinen
2015-01-21 18:42 ` David Daney [this message]
2015-01-26 8:06 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-01-26 13:16 ` Ralf Baechle
2015-01-26 14:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-01-26 18:15 ` David Daney
2015-01-26 19:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-01-26 20:13 ` David Daney
2015-01-27 16:15 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-01-27 19:57 ` David Daney
2015-02-05 13:46 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-02-05 15:28 ` Måns Rullgård
2015-02-05 16:12 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-02-05 19:36 ` Måns Rullgård
2015-02-05 16:27 ` David Daney
2015-02-05 21:02 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2015-01-21 6:50 ` Antony Pavlov
2015-02-12 4:16 ` Joshua Kinard
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