linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP4: sleep: byteswap data for big-endian

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Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:14:28 +0200
From:	Taras Kondratiuk <taras.kondratiuk@...aro.org>
To:	Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>
Cc:	Tero Kristo <t-kristo@...com>, Patch Tracking <patches@...aro.org>,
	Linaro Networking <linaro-networking@...aro.org>,
	Linaro Kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@...aro.org>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: OMAP4: sleep: byteswap data for big-endian

On 13 January 2014 17:23, Nishanth Menon <nm@...com> wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 09:03 AM, Taras Kondratiuk wrote:
>> From: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@...aro.org>
>>
>> Assembler functions defined in sleep44xx.S need to byteswap values
>> after read / before write from h/w register if code compiled in big
>> endian mode. Simple change to do 'rev x, x' before str instruction
>> and after ldr instruction that deals with h/w registers.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@...aro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Taras Kondratiuk <taras.kondratiuk@...aro.org>
>> ---
>> This is a part of RFC series [1].
>> Based on v3.13-rc8.
>>
>> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg99927.html
>>
>>  arch/arm/mach-omap2/sleep44xx.S |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
>>
>
> OMAP4 is LE, and if there is a gcc flag for the same, is'nt it cleaner
> to deal with it in Makefile rather than trying to make an assembly
> meant only for LE by force building it for BE?

Hi Nishanth
I'm not sure I got your point.
Do you propose to build this file as LE while the rest of kernel is BE?

-- 
Regards,
Taras Kondratiuk
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