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Re: big endian support?



> On Jul 30, 2015, at 11:29 PM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> For cortex A7 the kernel switches the CPU early at startup, so
> just booting a different kernel will do the trick.

That isn’t quite true.  There’s quite a bit more involved including
changes to bus_space and making sure dma is done with the correct
byte swapping.  Only those kernel that have had all of that done
are being built big-endian.  


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