[U-Boot] [PATCH] MIPS: fix endianess handling
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Mon Dec 5 11:05:05 CET 2011
Dear Daniel Schwierzeck,
In message <4EDC0A99.6090106 at googlemail.com> you wrote:
>
> > 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?
As is, they are rarely used, so they tend to collect bit-rot.
If we stop to even compile them, they wil rot much faster. This is
not a good idea.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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