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From: Daniel Schwierzeck <daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: fix endianess handling
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:04:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDC0A99.6090106@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111204150618.CBCA925EA22@gemini.denx.de>

On 12/04/2011 04:06 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,
>
> In message<4EDB5F86.40605@googlemail.com>  you wrote:
>>
>> Wolfgang, is there any reason why standalone apps are linked without
>> LDFLAGS (especially PLATFORM_LDFLAGS)?
>
> None that I know, at least.
>
> In general, standalone applications are a rarely used special feature,
> and the few people who actually ever used this for a purpose probably
> used custom code and custom linker scripts, so the mainline code is
> eventually not that good supproted.

the problem is those apps are always compiled. Maybe we should introduce 
a config option to enable building only if someone really needs them?

>
>> This patch fixes a general issue with standalone apps on archs
>> supporting both endianess types when running MAKEALL. I guess this could
>> be relevant for ARM too if U-Boot has support for big-endian ARM boards.
>
> It does, but I doubt anybody ever used standalone applications on
> these.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>



-- 
Best regards,
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-05  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-28 13:42 [U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: fix endianess handling Daniel Schwierzeck
     [not found] ` <CACUy__XYf2Zo3d0SQ7Ub-ea37C2X=gZ+bTMTX95vz+YdAeQhDw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-12-04 14:32   ` Shinya Kuribayashi
2011-12-04 15:08     ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-12-05  0:10       ` Daniel Schwierzeck
2012-03-31 20:54         ` Marek Vasut
     [not found] ` <4EDB5F86.40605@googlemail.com>
2011-12-04 15:06   ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-12-05  0:04     ` Daniel Schwierzeck [this message]
2011-12-05 10:05       ` Wolfgang Denk
2011-12-07 12:59 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Daniel Schwierzeck
2011-12-11 16:53   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v3] " Daniel Schwierzeck
2011-12-16 18:12     ` Mike Frysinger

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