[Buildroot] [PATCH] ext-toolchain: MIPS: Select correct endianness for the target
Markos Chandras
Markos.Chandras at imgtec.com
Mon Oct 14 10:21:53 UTC 2013
Hi Thomas,
On 10/14/13 11:05, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Markos Chandras,
>
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 10:52:25 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> +ifeq ($(BR2_mipsel)$(BR2_mips64el),y)
>> +ifeq ($(BR2_ENDIAN),"LITTLE")
>
> If we're on mipsel or mips64el, we're always little endian, right? So
> maybe the test on BR2_ENDIAN isn't that useful? :-)
Oh right that makes sense...
>
>> +TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_WRAPPER_ARGS += -DBR_MIPS_TARGET_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>> +TOOLCHAIN_EXTERNAL_CFLAGS += -EL
>> +endif
>> +endif
>
> Should we do it for -EB as well? Or do we consider because the Sourcery
> toolchain defaults to big endian we don't need to explicit -EB ?
It's not necessary because the default is for big endian. But if you
prefer to do that for the sake of consinstency I am fine with it :)
Peter can you fix this patch before you commit it or should I send a v2?
--
markos
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