From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk (Ben Dooks) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:58:45 +0100 Subject: v3.10 - big endian core support In-Reply-To: <20130712134726.0a909165@skate> References: <20130712134726.0a909165@skate> Message-ID: <51DFEF75.8080600@codethink.co.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On 12/07/13 12:47, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Vijay Kilari, > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:09:12 +0530, Vijay Kilari wrote: > >>> Ben Dooks has a separate branch on top of this base branch for >>> big-endian support, that adds atags compat code to convert the ATAGs >>> data from LE to BE. See the baserock/311/be/atags branch in >>> git://git.baserock.org/delta/linux. Or >>> http://git.baserock.org/cgi-bin/cgit.cgi/delta/linux.git/log/?h=baserock/311/be/atags. >> >> ARM VE TC2 board, enabling CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL failed to boot in BE mode >> It hangs at very early stage of boot > > Yeah, the Thumb2 code is not supported by Ben Dooks patches, it's part > of the TODO-list. I think Ben said he would probably not have much time > to work on this. I might be able to spare some time on this, so just > let me know if I should start working on this. If I remember correctly, > it's mainly the fixup_pv_table code that needed some Thumb2/BE love. > > Will, is getting Thumb2 working a requirement to get the BE support > merged, or can we for now make the BE option depends on !THUMB2_KERNEL ? I would like to sort out getting this code merged as it seems to have been tested by several people now outside Codethink. I could try doing the THUMB2 support, but I do not have a lot of experience with building THUMB2 kernels. -- Ben Dooks http://www.codethink.co.uk/ Senior Engineer Codethink - Providing Genius