From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] arm64: Remove unused big-endian support
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:24:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260818172411.GB2249@quark> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6632712f-7782-4580-84c0-62124a016f46@app.fastmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 05:11:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I had not expected the removal to come this soon, but I'm not
> complaining about that. I assume you are planning this for 7.4,
> leaving 7.3-LTS to still have the code in case someone wants to
> still use it, right?
It's already been BROKEN (and thus is dead code) since v6.18. Some of
that dead code has already been removed. Other code never actually
worked correctly on big endian in the first place and no one ever cared.
Acked-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-18 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-11 14:01 [PATCH 00/12] arm64: Remove unused big-endian support Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 01/12] selftests/arm64: Remove " Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 02/12] arm64: bpf: Remove big-endian support from the JIT compiler Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 03/12] arm64: crypto: Assume a little-endian kernel Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 04/12] arm64: lib: Assume a little-endian kernel in custom library routines Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 05/12] arm64: lib: Assume a little-endian kernel in optimised string routines Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 06/12] arm64: assembler: Remove endianness helper macros Will Deacon
2026-08-11 15:04 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2026-08-16 9:42 ` Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 07/12] arm64: vdso32: Always build compat vDSO object as little-endian Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 08/12] KVM: arm64: Remove support for a big-endian hypervisor object Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 09/12] arm64: Remove all usage of CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:49 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 10/12] arm64: Remove all usage of __AARCH64EB__ Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 11/12] arm64: image: Remove endianness handling for generating image header Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:01 ` [PATCH 12/12] arm64: Kbuild: Remove vestigial big-endian support Will Deacon
2026-08-11 14:54 ` [PATCH 00/12] arm64: Remove unused " Marc Zyngier
2026-08-11 15:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-08-16 9:47 ` Will Deacon
2026-08-16 10:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-08-18 10:33 ` Will Deacon
2026-08-18 17:24 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-08-11 15:43 ` Catalin Marinas
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