linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: Kconfig: add a choice for endianness

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Message-ID: <20191114144036.GA63366@arrakis.emea.arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:40:37 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
Cc:     will@...nel.org, john.garry@...wei.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: Kconfig: add a choice for endianness

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:26:52AM +0100, Anders Roxell wrote:
> When building allmodconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=$(pwd)/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN gets enabled. Which tends not to be what most
> people want. Another concern that has come up is that ACPI isn't built
> for an allmodconfig kernel today since that also depends on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN.
> 
> Rework so that we introduce a 'choice' and default the choice to
> CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN. That means that when we build an allmodconfig kernel
> it will default to CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN that most people tends to want.
> 
> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>

Queued for 5.5 (with the typo fixed). Thanks.

-- 
Catalin