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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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On Tuesday 12 February 2013, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It depends how the ARM core operates vs. IO when switched between BE and
> LE, does it keep the same lines doing byte 0 or does it keep the MSB/LSB
> in the same place (and thus changes which lanes contain byte 0) ?

IIRC it changed between older and more recent ARM, at least we have
separate configuration options for "BE-8" big-endian mode on ARMv6
and above, and "BE-32" on older ones.

Currently we don't support platforms upstream that get configured
as BE-32, but the code is there and I know of people using it.

	Arnd