Re: Big-endian mode supported for Raspberry Pi [0-3] with bootable images available

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost (Rin Okuyama) writes:

>On 2020/12/03 21:46, Michael van Elst wrote:
>> rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost (Rin Okuyama) writes:
>> 
>>> vchiq(4) and vcaudio(4) are not supported in big-endian mode. This
>>> requires heavy modifications to third party source codes. Anyway, we
>>> will switch to vc4 drm driver, hopefully soon.
>> 
>> The vc4 driver is not a replacement for vchiq or vcaudio, but since
>> it kills vchiq, you then also need a hardware driver for audio (and
>> a second one for RPI4 which has different audio hardware).

>Thanks for correction. Yeah, we need independent audio driver in
>that case. I hope that the new driver gets simpler than vchiq...

vc4 is a DRM driver, I strongly doubt that it will be as small and
simple as vchiq. I'm also not that interested in dropping the
firmware functionality.

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