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From: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>
To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: RFC: Adding a new global MACHINE_ENDIAN variable
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:42:21 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B40165.6000506@whitby.id.au> (raw)

There exist machines (like the ixp4xx range of processors) which can be
run in either little-endian or big-endian mode, and both modes are
supported by OE.

I propose a new "MACHINE_ENDIAN" (naming courtesy of RP) variable to do
this selection (i.e. for machines that support both, the build can be
selected in local.conf).

NSLU2-Linux has previously had an "ARCH_BYTE_SEX" variable for this
purpose - I would move all instances of that to the new variable name.
I would also update Angstrom to use the new global variable name instead
of reusing the nslu2-linux-specific variable (which will be deprecated).

The supported values of the variable would be "be" and "le".

-- Rod



             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-22  0:12 Rod Whitby [this message]
2007-01-22 17:01 ` RFC: Adding a new global MACHINE_ENDIAN variable Koen Kooi
2007-01-22 19:14   ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-22 20:03     ` Koen Kooi
2007-01-23  0:10       ` Deprecating ixp4xx, nslu2 in favour of endian-specific machine settings (Was: RFC on MACHINE_ENDIAN) Rod Whitby
2007-01-23  5:40         ` Removal of the proprietary Intel IXP ethernet driver (ixp4{00, 25}-eth, ixp-osal, ixp4xx-csr) from OE Rod Whitby
2007-01-23 19:23           ` Robert Wörle
2007-01-23 19:56             ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-25  3:15               ` RFC: customisable pivot-root functionality Rod Whitby
2007-01-25  3:53                 ` Justin Patrin
2007-01-25 12:45                 ` Cliff Brake
2007-01-25 16:54                 ` Hans Henry von Tresckow
2009-04-20  5:52           ` Removal of the proprietary Intel IXP ethernet driver (ixp4{00, 25}-eth, ixp-osal, ixp4xx-csr) from OE Rod Whitby
2007-01-23 11:13         ` Deprecating ixp4xx, nslu2 in favour of endian-specific machine settings (Was: RFC on MACHINE_ENDIAN) Richard Purdie
2007-01-23 19:37           ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-23 20:34             ` Richard Purdie
2007-01-24  6:41               ` SITEINFO_ENDIAN(N)ESS (NN, not N) Rod Whitby
2007-01-24  6:44                 ` Rod Whitby
2007-01-28 12:41           ` Deprecating ixp4xx, nslu2 in favour of endian-specific machine settings (Was: RFC on MACHINE_ENDIAN) Rod Whitby

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