[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 3/5] MIPS: Optimize the setup of endianess and CPU optimization flags

[Shinya Kuribayashi]

On 3/15/11 10:20 PM, Daniel Schwierzeck wrote:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.u-boot/81572/focus=81735
>
> sorry, I missed that discussion

You can find a lot more in the list archive.

> Do we need this endianess flag stuff at all? Each toolchain that is
> built with a specific
> endinaness does not really need the extra setting of -EB/-EL or am I
> miss something?

True, as far as toolchain-default-endianness build goes.

The Linux/MIPS kernel however is maintained where Big-Endian and Little-
-Endian machines can be configured and compiled using a single toolchain,
regardless of its default endianness.  CONFIG_LITTLE_ENDIAN is exactly
for that purpose.