Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:46:24 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM |
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:42:32AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > I guess I'm after some commitment that this is (a) useful to somebody and > > (b) going to be tested regularly, otherwise it will go the way of things > > like big-endian, where we end up carrying around code which is broken more > > often than not (although big-endian is more self-contained). > > It may be something worth considering adding to my nightly builder/boot > testing, but I suspect that's impractical as it probably requires a BE > userspace, which would then mean that the platform can't boot LE. > > I suspect that we will just have to rely on BE users staying around and > reporting problems when they occur.
Indeed. Marc and I have BE guests running under kvmtool on an LE host, so that's what I've been using (then a BE busybox can sit in the host filesystem and be passed via something like 9pfs).
Will
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