On Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 09:30:00AM +1000, Alistair Francis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 9:39 PM Mohamed Mediouni > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 25. Feb 2026, at 11:20, Djordje Todorovic > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > This series adds big-endian (BE) RISC-V target support to QEMU, > > > covering both softmmu and linux-user emulation for riscv32be and > > > riscv64be. > > Hello, > > > > There’s no Linux RISC-V big endian. Maybe the right thing to do is to not > > support it unless we’re sure that it can get to Linux upstream (for the > > linux-user mode)? > > Agreed. We really need upstream Linux support before user mode
On that front, Ben posted patches for it and Linus was really really not enthused when he became aware of it: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/[email protected] Even without Linus' take, I feel like there's absolutely no chance of upstream support without meaningful shipping hardware that requires big endian support, because basically everyone else was also opposed to adding it...
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