From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr>
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] riscv: remove dead big endian code
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:47:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190411154731.GA23171@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3382adaf8be0b44af9ebb8b7528cac41@mailhost.ics.forth.gr>
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 06:40:07PM +0300, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> I don't think we can definitely say that RISC-V will always have a
> little-endian,
> memory system only that it is little-endian for now. Also this code acts as
> a check,
And we don't know if Linux will be around if that ever changes.
The point is:
a) the current RISC-V spec is LE only
b) the current linux port is LE only except for this little bit
There is no point in leaving just this bitrotting code around. It
just confuses developers, (very very slightly) slows down compiles
and will bitrot. It also won't be any significant help to a future
developer down the road doing a hypothetical BE RISC-V Linux port.
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-11 11:56 misc cleanups Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 1/9] riscv: use asm-generic/extable.h Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-25 19:00 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 2/9] riscv: remove dead big endian code Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 15:40 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 15:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-04-11 16:08 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 16:47 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-12 6:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 3/9] riscv: remove CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_A Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 12:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-04-12 1:23 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-04-12 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 4/9] riscv: turn mm_segment_t into a struct Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 5/9] riscv: simplify stack pointer setup in head.S Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 20:54 ` Atish Patra
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 6/9] riscv: also clear all pending interrupts when booting Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 15:43 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 18:52 ` Atish Patra
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 7/9] riscv: remove duplicate macros from ptrace.h Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 15:46 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 15:55 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 16:03 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 16:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 16:38 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 16:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-25 19:13 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-04-25 19:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-25 20:05 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 8/9] riscv: print the unexpected interrupt cause Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 15:52 ` Nick Kossifidis
2019-04-11 15:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-25 18:59 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-04-11 11:56 ` [PATCH 9/9] riscv: call pm_power_off from machine_halt / machine_power_off Christoph Hellwig
2019-04-11 18:53 ` Atish Patra
2019-04-25 19:57 ` Paul Walmsley
2019-05-21 10:33 ` Andreas Schwab
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