linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition

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Message-ID: <7b6059eb-2e8f-a1e9-a3da-59e10617af95@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:31:12 -0500
From:   Babu Moger <babu.moger@...cle.com>
To:     Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>, kbuild-all@...org,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
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        Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config
 definition


On 6/12/2017 3:58 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>> That way, we don't have to guess what the toolchain does, but rather
>> tell it to do whatever is configured, like we do for most other architectures.
>>
>> Unfortunately we can't do the same thing on xtensa, as that no longer
>> supports the -mbig-endian/-mbig-endian flags in any recent gcc version
>> (a long time ago it had them, but they were removed along with many other
>> options).
> For xtensa we probably need to generate Kconfig fragment that would go
> in with the variant subdirectory. That will solve this, and clean up other
> options that we currently have for manual selection for xtensa, but there's
> actually no choice, i.e. the option has to be selected correctly, there's only
> one correct choice and otherwise the kernel either won't build or won't work.
> I'll look into it.
Max. Thanks. Please update us when you are done.
>