On Tue, 2024-12-03 at 11:51 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > The only case I'm aware of where the byte order is actually switched is > booting a ppc64le guest in a pseries machine, where the opal firmware > runs in bigendian mode and the linux kernel runs in little endian mode. > > So here the changed reset behavior could actually make a difference, but > you will only notice if the opal firmware does *not* set the byte order > register.
OPAL (well skiboot) doesn't display anything anyways (or at least it didn't when I wrote it :-). It just boots Linux as a bootloader. So as long as Linux itself sets the register it should be fine. Cheers, Ben.
