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

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Date:   Sat, 10 Nov 2018 18:39:31 +0800
From:   Cao jin <caoj.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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

On 11/9/18 9:00 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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?
> 

Oh, I don't know and never think of there is this kind of condition,
thanks for your info and sorry for the noise.

Sincerely,
Cao jin