[U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: fix endianess handling

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Dec 4 16:06:18 CET 2011


Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,

In message <4EDB5F86.40605 at googlemail.com> you wrote:
>
> Wolfgang, is there any reason why standalone apps are linked without 
> LDFLAGS (especially PLATFORM_LDFLAGS)?

None that I know, at least.

In general, standalone applications are a rarely used special feature,
and the few people who actually ever used this for a purpose probably
used custom code and custom linker scripts, so the mainline code is
eventually not that good supproted.

> This patch fixes a general issue with standalone apps on archs 
> supporting both endianess types when running MAKEALL. I guess this could 
> be relevant for ARM too if U-Boot has support for big-endian ARM boards.

It does, but I doubt anybody ever used standalone applications on
these.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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