linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] MIPS: dt: Explicitly specify native endian behaviour for syscon

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:10:33 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>
Cc:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] MIPS: dt: Explicitly specify native endian
 behaviour for syscon

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:33:37AM +0100, Jonas Gorski wrote:

> > -                       little-endian;
> > +                       native-endian;

> But native-endian == big-endian usually for bcm63xx, so is this
> actually a bugfix?

Yes, it's buggy - in v4.5-rc1 we respect the endianness so big endian
just won't work, prior to that this was a hack around another bug which
was done rather than reporting it so it "just" results in a DT that's
obviously incorrect.  This local hack has been causing a lot of
problems.

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