Re: [PATCH] ARM: trusted_foundations: Maintain CPU endianness

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Fri Mar 20 2015 - 12:07:16 EST


On 03/20/2015 09:36 AM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
Convert CPU reset vector address to LE to support big-endian kernel.

Naively this sounds a little odd; the value here is in a CPU register all the time, not in memory, so I'm not sure why endianness is relevant? Presumably the CPU doesn't end up byte-swapping values in registers when running in BE mode or it takes an SMC? If it does, why don't we need cpu_to_le32(TF_SET_CPU_BOOT_ADDR_SMC) too?

Sorry if this is a silly question; I haven't followed any of the BE kernel patches.
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