[PATCH] powerpc: Always select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Wed Oct 5 00:24:15 AEDT 2022


On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:15:23 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Currently powerpc selects HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS in all cases
> but one. The exception is if the kernel is being built little endian and
> explicitly targetted for Power7.
> 
> The combination of Power7 and little endian was never commercially
> supported, or widely used. It was only ever possible on bare metal
> machines, using unofficial firmware, or in qemu guests hosted on those
> machines.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc: Always select HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/ecf8f36446f53866727d9670df1746f8d20130a8

cheers


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