[Question] Is little endian supported on all the platforms?

[Boqun Feng]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 04:52:38PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 14:44 +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I hit a strange build error on v4.2, when I try to build a LE kernel
> > with a slightly modification of the ppc64_defconfig. What I did is just
> > make ppc64_defconfig and make menuconfig to set CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y, and
> > then build the kernel.
> > 
> > I did a little research myself, and found out the error is because of
> > trying to build a LE kernel with CONFIG_PPC_PS3=y. So a simple way to
> > reproduce is:
> 
> First, LE isn't supported on PS/3 :-) It's only supported on POWER8
> machines (and *some* P7 machines and only when running as KVM guest).
> 

Got it, thank you ;-)

So should we modify Kconfigs of all the platform to reflect this?

> But the specific problem you are having looks like a differnet issue
> with the PS3 boot wrapper.
> 

But could the reason of this be that the building process of the PS3
boot wrapper assumes the kernel is BE?

Regards,
Boqun
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