Re: [PATCH] arm64: Kconfig: add a choice for endianess

From: John Garry
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 11:24:36 EST


On 12/11/2019 16:01, Anders Roxell wrote:
When building allmodconfig KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=$(pwd)/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN gets enabled. Which tends not to be what most
people wants. Another concern that thas come up is that ACPI in't built

/s/wants/want/, s/thas/has/, s/in't/isn't/

for an allmodconfig kernel today since that also depends on !CPU_BIG_ENDIAN.

Rework so that we introduce a 'choice' and default the choice to
CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN. That means that when we build an allmodconfig kernel
it will default to CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN that most people tends to want.

Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW, apart from spelling mistakes:

Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 64764ca92fca..62f83c234a61 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -877,11 +877,24 @@ config ARM64_PA_BITS
default 48 if ARM64_PA_BITS_48
default 52 if ARM64_PA_BITS_52
+choice
+ prompt "Endianess"

Should this be "Endianness"?

+ default CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ help
+ Choose what mode you plan on running your kernel in.
+
config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
bool "Build big-endian kernel"
help
Say Y if you plan on running a kernel in big-endian mode.
+config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+ bool "Build little-endian kernel"
+ help
+ Say Y if you plan on running a kernel in little-endian mode.
+
+endchoice
+
config SCHED_MC
bool "Multi-core scheduler support"
help