linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] kconfig: add CPU endian selection beconfig and leconfig

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Message-ID: <4689388.tNd2tB57aZ@wuerfel>
Date:	Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:59:24 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>,
	bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] kconfig: add CPU endian selection beconfig and leconfig

On Thursday 26 November 2015 11:59:55 Scott Branden wrote:
> @@ -151,6 +159,8 @@ help:
>         @echo  '  kvmconfig       - Enable additional options for kvm guest kernel support'
>         @echo  '  xenconfig       - Enable additional options for xen dom0 and guest kernel support'
>         @echo  '  tinyconfig      - Configure the tiniest possible kernel'
> +       @echo  '  beconfig        - Update current config to use big endian CPU'
> +       @echo  '  leconfig        - Update current config to use little endian CPU'
>  
> 

Most architectures don't actually support picking the endianess, I think
it would be better to keep this architecture specific in some form. If we
limit it to ARM/ARM64, we might not need the leconfig target at all, because
that is the default for all defconfig files in the kernel aside from ixp4xx,
which we can probably ignore here.

	Arnd
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