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

[Daniel Schwierzeck]

On 12/04/2011 04:06 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 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.

the problem is those apps are always compiled. Maybe we should introduce 
a config option to enable building only if someone really needs them?

>
>> 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
>



-- 
Best regards,
Daniel