Re: OpenRISC: Module loader broken

[Jonas Bonn]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 07:49 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 07:11, Jonas Bonn <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So OpenRISC is big endian, which matches
> arch/openrisc/include/asm/byteorder.h:#include <linux/byteorder/big_endian.h>
> 
> However, there are some remainings of little endian support:
> arch/openrisc/include/asm/unaligned.h:#if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
> arch/openrisc/include/asm/unaligned.h:#elif defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
> arch/openrisc/include/asm/unaligned.h:# error need to define endianess

Technically OpenRISC can be either big or little endian, but there is no
publically available little-endian implementation... yet.  There's a
proprietary little-endian implementation, but they're not running Linux.
Anyway, that's the reason for starting to cater for both endianesses.

> 
> > Since 'location' points at the 32-bit instruction in question, that cast
> > is supposed to be saying:  'move 16 bit value into low 16 bits of
> > instruction'.
> 
> It may be more readable and safer (w.r.t. changing endianness) to do
> 32-bit loads and stores and explicitly modify the 16 LSB.

Agreed.  It's probably a bit too clever that way it's written now.

/Jonas

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