[U-Boot] Using U-boot on the IXP432

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 09:22 Tue 13 Jan     , David Milway wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I have been using a board with and IXP432 for about a year now, starting
> with Redboot
> but running in big endian mode. 
> I am now looking at using u-boot for network booting but I would like to
> run it in little endian mode.
> Before I get stuck into to porting the code I have a few questions.
>  
> 1) Has anybody else ported the code to the IXP432?
I've hear about someone I'll try to canctact him
but the ixp432 is really simmilar to the ixp425 so it will be not difficult to
port
IIRC the most important work will be on the network support
> 2) Is there any reason that the IXP cpu configuration sets the bigendian
> flag and should it be possible 
> just to set it to little endian and will the bulk of the code work
> without modification?
no need
recently some patch have been send to allow u-boot to load a kernel little
endian evenif u-boot is compile as bigendian

so you will not restrict your u-boot to only use a little endian linux or
easly an other OS

Best Regards,
J.