Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] MIPS: dt: Explicitly specify native endian behaviour for syscon

From: Mark Brown
Date: Wed Jan 27 2016 - 06:11:13 EST


On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:33:37AM +0100, Jonas Gorski wrote:

> > - little-endian;
> > + native-endian;

> But native-endian == big-endian usually for bcm63xx, so is this
> actually a bugfix?

Yes, it's buggy - in v4.5-rc1 we respect the endianness so big endian
just won't work, prior to that this was a hack around another bug which
was done rather than reporting it so it "just" results in a DT that's
obviously incorrect. This local hack has been causing a lot of
problems.

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