Re: [PATCH 2/3] support ARM BE8 mode on a little endian machine

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Jan 17 2011 - 05:02:04 EST


On 17 January 2011 08:42, Stanley.Miao <stanley.miao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When BE8 kernel is running on a little endian machine, the kernel endian
> mode need to be converted at the begining of the startup procedure with
> the instruction "setend be".

Can we not let the boot loader do this? It could also prepare the tags
as big endian.

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Catalin
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