linux-kernel - Re: Introduce support for little endian PowerPC

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Date:	Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:03:43 -0500
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, paulus@...ba.org,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Introduce support for little endian PowerPC

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:51:55AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 12:59 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > I'm not against it, and I agree some of the patches seem like good
> > clean up.  I'm concerned about this bit rotting pretty quickly.
> 
> Maybe. Most of it doesn't seem to be that bit-rottable.
> 
> The changes to the asm stuff in misc_32.S for example are functions we
> never ever touch once written (libgcc replacements) so I don't see them
> rotting more with LE support than they did with BE :-)

Does KVM/qemu support running LE guest on BE host? That'd help keeping
the bitrot lower. :)



-Olof
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