From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EB063B7135 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 06:52:08 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: Introduce support for little endian PowerPC From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Kumar Gala In-Reply-To: References: <1285916771-18033-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> <2C5357FA-F87F-457E-B5C1-0DCC5A842DE7@kernel.crashing.org> <1285935283.2463.78.camel@pasglop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 06:51:55 +1000 Message-ID: <1285966315.2463.141.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, Ian Munsie , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 12:59 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > I'm not against it, and I agree some of the patches seem like good > clean up. I'm concerned about this bit rotting pretty quickly. Maybe. Most of it doesn't seem to be that bit-rottable. The changes to the asm stuff in misc_32.S for example are functions we never ever touch once written (libgcc replacements) so I don't see them rotting more with LE support than they did with BE :-) What might rot is that we might introduce new LE breakage, true, and I suppose it's going to be to some extent my job to at least every now and then shoot that thing on a 44x to see if it still flies. Cheers, Ben.