From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:44:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from embeddededge.com ([IPv6:::ffff:209.113.146.155]:60167 "EHLO penguin.netx4.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:44:34 +0000 Received: from [10.1.100.57] ([64.164.196.27]) by penguin.netx4.com (8.12.8/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j24KiZX5028537; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:44:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050304202338.GA14128@linux-mips.org> References: <1109157737.16445.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <000301c5199d$3154ad40$0300a8c0@Exterity.local> <1109160313.16445.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050223150617.GA18290@linux-mips.org> <20050304202338.GA14128@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <7f99ffacb17cd1e961c026057fb89571@embeddededge.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: JP Foster , linux-mips@linux-mips.org From: Dan Malek Subject: Re: Big Endian au1550 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:44:26 -0800 To: Ralf Baechle 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: 7372 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: dan@embeddededge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:23 PM, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Okay. I don't know which of the Alchemy systems are capable of > supporting > big endian at all - They all will. > some might not due to unavailable firmware for example. Well, you can (and I have) changed the mode when booting the kernel from what the boot rom initialized. It's not pretty, but it works. > So I guess I'll leave cooking a patch to you or Pete. OK. -- Dan