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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	MIPS Mailing List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] MIPS: dt: Explicitly specify native endian behaviour for syscon
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:10:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160127111033.GI6042@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOiHx=kk06ythGn=a3UGs-BBUUYxdm7zLsNtBFiCiwxF5m6VxA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:33:37AM +0100, Jonas Gorski wrote:

> > -                       little-endian;
> > +                       native-endian;

> But native-endian == big-endian usually for bcm63xx, so is this
> actually a bugfix?

Yes, it's buggy - in v4.5-rc1 we respect the endianness so big endian
just won't work, prior to that this was a hack around another bug which
was done rather than reporting it so it "just" results in a DT that's
obviously incorrect.  This local hack has been causing a lot of
problems.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-27 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 22:46 [PATCH 1/2] regmap: Add explict native endian flag to DT bindings Mark Brown
2016-01-26 22:46 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] MIPS: dt: Explicitly specify native endian behaviour for syscon Mark Brown
2016-01-26 23:16   ` Florian Fainelli
2016-01-27  9:37     ` Ralf Baechle
2016-01-27 10:33     ` Jonas Gorski
2016-01-27 10:45       ` Johannes Berg
2016-01-27 11:10       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2016-01-27 18:51     ` Mark Brown
2016-01-27 11:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] regmap: Add explict native endian flag to DT bindings Arnd Bergmann
2016-01-27 12:19   ` Mark Brown

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