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Re: [2/2 ABI and toolchain part] Support Raspberry Pi [0-3] in big-endian mode



On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:35:22AM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 22, 2020, at 11:55 PM, Rin Okuyama <rokuyama.rk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > ARMv6 supports both BE32 (deprecated) and BE8 (new) formats for
> > big-endian mode. While other OS's use BE8 on ARMv6, our code is
> > intended to use BE32 instead.
> 
> Why don?t we switch to BE8?

Does any hardware actually still exist that uses this (or known-working
emulators)? Are there firmware/boot restrictions?

Martin


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