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[195.23.151.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-47aa0f21328sm7121987f8f.32.2026.07.04.04.05.59 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:06:01 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julian Braha Message-ID: Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 12:05:58 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: soc@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/19] ARM: mark CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 as deprecated To: Arnd Bergmann , Linus Walleij , Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, soc@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Aaro Koskinen , "A. Sverdlin" , Alexandre Belloni , Alexandre Torgue , Andrew Lunn , Ard Biesheuvel , Claudiu Beznea , Daniel Mack , Ethan Nelson-Moore , Frank Li , Gregory Clement , Haojian Zhuang , "Jeremy J. Peper" , Kristoffer Ericson , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Mark Brown , Marc Zyngier , Mike Rapoport , Nicolas Ferre , Patrice Chotard , Ralph Siemsen , Robert Jarzmik , Russell King , Sascha Hauer , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Stefan Agner , Stefan Wiehler , Tony Lindgren , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Will Deacon References: <20260701212353.2196041-1-arnd@kernel.org> <20260701212353.2196041-7-arnd@kernel.org> <60541bca-b0ec-4ffc-a2f8-31f196f43dc2@app.fastmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Julian Braha In-Reply-To: <60541bca-b0ec-4ffc-a2f8-31f196f43dc2@app.fastmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Arnd, On 7/4/26 11:33, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > config CPU_ENDIAN_BE8 > - bool > - depends on CPU_BIG_ENDIAN > - default CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K || CPU_V7 || CPU_V7M > + bool "Build big-endian kernel (DEPRECATED)" > + depends on BROKEN > + depends on ARCH_MULTI_V6 || ARCH_MULTI_V7 > + select CPU_BIG_ENDIAN > help > Support for the BE-8 (big-endian) mode on ARMv6 and ARMv7 processors. > > + This is deprecated and will likely be removed in the future. Maybe it makes sense to add a 'transitional' to this option? - Julian Braha