Hello Marc, The reason is legacy code and the porting risks.
I also agree with the use of LE instead of BE. Best regards, Flavio 2010/11/17 Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]>: > On 11/17/2010 07:35 PM, Flavio de Castro Alves Filho wrote: >> Hello Marc, >> >> That's what happened. My ptxdist builds an LE kernel (using a BE >> toolchain) and does not boot the root filesystem because it is BE. >> >> For now, I could now find an option in the kernelconfig in order to >> allow BE build of the kernel. I am using the Linux provided by Texas >> Instruments, with the pre-implemented patches. The configuration file >> is the specific for the AM3517 processor. >> >> Thank you for your help. Now I'm searching a way do set the Linux >> kernel to, at least, accept big endian binaries. > > Everyone uses LE these days, I suggest to build your root file system as > well as your kernel LE. What's the reason for "insisting" in BE? > > cheers, Marc > > -- > Pengutronix e.K. | Marc Kleine-Budde | > Industrial Linux Solutions | Phone: +49-231-2826-924 | > Vertretung West/Dortmund | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | > Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | http://www.pengutronix.de | > > -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
