linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mkpiggy: Drop endianness transforming

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1811091359310.1519@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:00:19 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Cao jin <caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
        bp@...en8.de, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mkpiggy: Drop endianness transforming

Cao,

On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, Cao jin wrote:

> gzip file has 4-byte little-endian file size encoded at the end of file,
> while all the other compressed kernel file has size_append operation in
> the Makefile which also append the 4-byte little-endian file size. There
> is no need to do endianness transforming by mkpiggy.

Did you test that on a BE host cross-compiling the kernel for x86?

Thanks,

	tglx