From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Schwierzeck Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:04:41 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: fix endianess handling In-Reply-To: <20111204150618.CBCA925EA22@gemini.denx.de> References: <1322487768-19439-1-git-send-email-daniel.schwierzeck@googlemail.com> <4EDB5F86.40605@googlemail.com> <20111204150618.CBCA925EA22@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4EDC0A99.6090106@googlemail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.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