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

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Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:01:58 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	"Stanley.Miao" <stanley.miao@...driver.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] support ARM BE8 mode on a little endian machine

On 17 January 2011 08:42, Stanley.Miao <stanley.miao@...driver.com> 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.

-- 
Catalin
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