[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 2/2] riscv: tools: Add big endian target support to prelink-riscv

[Marcus Comstedt]

Hi Rick,

Rick Chen <rickchen36 at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for your efforts about the support for big endian ELFs.
> But I don't have big endian toolchain to verify.

I don't think anyone has a big endian toolchain for riscv at this
juncture.  :-)  (No specification for big/bi endian has been nailed
down yet, AFAIK, although there has been discussion about how to
implement it.)

I expect the patch to work for symmetry reasons - the places that need
byteswapping when the host is little endian and the target is big
endian are exactly the same as the places that need byteswapping when
the host is big endian and the target is little endian (a case which I
have tested), so it's just a matter of keeping track of the endianness
of the host (something which U-Boot does internally already) versus
the endianness of the target (which is handled by this patch).

Merging this right now is probably about as useful as merging 128-bit
ELF support, but I don't think it really adds any maintainence burden,
so it might be simpler than keeping it around in patchwork.  It's your
call.  :-)


  // Marcus