Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: Kconfig: add a choice for endianness
From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Thu Nov 14 2019 - 09:40:42 EST
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:26:52AM +0100, 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 want. Another concern that has come up is that ACPI isn't built
> 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.
>
> Reviewed-by: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Queued for 5.5 (with the typo fixed). Thanks.
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Catalin