Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition

From	Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition
Date	2017-06-12 23:40 +0200
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On 6/12/2017 3:58 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> That way, we don't have to guess what the toolchain does, but rather
>> tell it to do whatever is configured, like we do for most other architectures.
>>
>> Unfortunately we can't do the same thing on xtensa, as that no longer
>> supports the -mbig-endian/-mbig-endian flags in any recent gcc version
>> (a long time ago it had them, but they were removed along with many other
>> options).
> For xtensa we probably need to generate Kconfig fragment that would go
> in with the variant subdirectory. That will solve this, and clean up other
> options that we currently have for manual selection for xtensa, but there's
> actually no choice, i.e. the option has to be selected correctly, there's only
> one correct choice and otherwise the kernel either won't build or won't work.
> I'll look into it.
Max. Thanks. Please update us when you are done.
>

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[PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-06-09 00:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-06-09 09:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-06-09 09:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config  definition Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-06-09 16:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-06-09 16:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config  definition Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-06-09 16:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config  definition kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-06-10 16:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config  definition Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-06-12 22:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> - 2017-06-12 23:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config  definition Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-06-12 23:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config definition Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-06-12 23:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] include: warn for inconsistent endian config  definition Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-06-12 23:30 +0200

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