[U-Boot] R: Re: Changing endianness of at91sam926x causes u-boot to crash

[U-Boot] R: Re: Changing endianness of at91sam926x causes u-boot to crash

[dibacco at libero.it]

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com
>Data: 15/01/2009 20.47
>A: "dibacco at libero.it"<dibacco@libero.it>
>Cc: <u-boot@lists.denx.de>
>Ogg: Re: [U-Boot] Changing endianness of at91sam926x causes u-boot to	crash
>
>tor 2009-01-15 klockan 19:17 +0100 skrev dibacco at libero.it:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a board with at91sam9260 configured as little endian (via strap 
>> pin). The u-boot is working quite well.
>> On the board there is a chip whose 
>> driver was written for PowerPC that is big endian. Unfortunately the 
driver was
>> 
>> written in a bad way and it is difficult to fix endiannes dependencies. 
I 
>> thought to change the endianness of the processor
>> to big endian. I recompiled 
>> everything with a big endian compiler but the u-boot is crashing. Should 
I 
>> change something
>> on my hardware?
>
>The AT91 series is strictly small endian.
>
>Before there is an argument, I'd like to point
>out people came to the conclusion that 
>"the only good endian is a dead endian"
>years ago.
>
>

But my processor has a pin I can configure to change the endianness. Why are 
you saying it cannot support big endian?