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+Device-Tree binding for device endianness
+
+The endianness mode of CPU & Device scenarios:
+Index    CPU       Device     Endianess flag for DT bool property
+------------------------------------------------------------
+1        LE        LE         -
+2        LE        BE         'big-endian{,-*}'
+3        BE        BE         -
+4        BE        LE         'little-endian{,-*}'
+
+For one device driver, which will run in different scenarios above
+on different SoCs using the devicetree, we need one way to simplify
+this.
+
+Required properties:
+- {big,little}-endian{,-*}: this is one boolean property.
+
+Examples:
+Scenario 1 : CPU in LE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+};
+
+Scenario 2 : CPU in LE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+             big-endian{,-*};
+};
+
+Scenario 3 : CPU in BE mode & device in BE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+};
+
+Scenario 4 : CPU in BE mode & device in LE mode.
+dev: dev@40031000 {
+             compatible = "name";
+             reg = <0x40031000 0x1000>;
+             ...
+             little-endian{,-*};
+};
-- 
1.8.4

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