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Re: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN in generic code (was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)

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On 5/25/2017 5:27 PM, Max Filippov wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
>> <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>> I guess the time is ripe for adding (both) symbols to all architectures?
>> Good idea. I think we can do most of this by adding a few lines to
>> arch/Kconfig:
>>
>> config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>>          bool
>>
>> config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>>         def_bool !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>>
>> This way, we only need to add 'select CPU_BIG_ENDIAN' to the
>> architectures that are always big-endian, and we don't need to
>> change anything for the ones that have a single 'CPU_BIG_ENDIAN'
>> option.
>>
>> The three architectures that have a 'choice' statement (mips, ppc and
>> sh) will have to convert, and m32r will have to replace the
>> option with the opposite one, which could break 'make oldconfig',
>> but nobody really cares about m32r any more.
> Xtensa may have either endianness and for xtensa we define
> CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN or CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
> in the arch/xtensa/Makefile based on the value of the compiler builtin
> macro.

Hmm.. That means defining  CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN  based on "def_bool 
!CPU_BIG_ENDIAN" will
  be a problem for Xtensa because menuconfig does not have the knowledge 
of compiler builtin macro.
Is that correct?

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Re: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN in generic code (was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7]  arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 00:30 +0200
  Re: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN in generic code (was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7]  arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com> - 2017-05-26 00:50 +0200
    Re: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN in generic code (was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7]  arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 01:00 +0200
  Re: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN in generic code (was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7]  arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 00:50 +0200
    Re: CPU_BIG_ENDIAN in generic code (was: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7]  arch/sparc: Define config parameter CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-05-29 15:00 +0200

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