ppc LE questions (seeking help hand info pointers)

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 21 02:12:21 EST 2001


On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:07:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 11:42:39AM -0400, Mark Salisbury wrote:
> > > question 4. assuming I was willing to deliver a clean, complete LE
> > > enabling patch (including devices that are relevant to me), as a compile
> > > time config option and maintain that patch, what would be the primary
> > > obstacle to inclusion in the main line.
> >
> > The objection to being an arch that attempts to support both LE and BE.
>
> Note that we already have a precedent: mips and mipsel, both in arch/mips/.

And SH too, iirc.  I know it can be done.  But do we want to do it is the
question.

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