Re: [RFC PATCH 21/23] powerpc64 is not necessarily BigEndian anymore! :)

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

> 
> For the sake of bisectability this really should be moved earlier;
> otherwise at least patch "fix parameter to firmware calls" would
> be wrong.
> 
Even bigger problem is whether we want to run in LE mode at all. From
what I understand (correct if I'm wrong) firmware calls remain
big-endian and you need to switch back and forth between LE and BE when
doing firmware calls. Byteswapping for the purpose of firmware calls is
to be avoided as bugs are easy to slip through (in fact the
byte-swapping isn't complete in proposed patches.
(correct me if I'm wrong) these new patches cover a subset of already
supported machines and don't add any user-visible feature and no new
kernel type (LE kernel can be loaded from BE GRUB).
Cross-compiling to BE from LE is easy (TARGET_CFLAGS=-EL).
So it looks like this patch series adds a new high-maintenance-cost port
covering only already supported machines and already supportred features.

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