[Buildroot] [PATCH] arch: drop support for ARC big-endian

[Julien Olivain]

On 11/12/2025 17:16, Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot wrote:
> Alexey Brodkin from Synopsys says:
> 
>   I think indeed, we may remove all the big-endian support for ARC.
>   Reasons are since introduction of ARC HS4x processors we no longer
>   support big-endian in any new processor IP, and even for older IP
>   which used to support big-endian it was rarely used... so basically
>   there's no good justification to spend any cycles on big-endian
>   support looking forward in this project.  I.e. BE support in uClibc
>   could also be removed if it makes any difference.
> 
> Therefore, let's removed support for ARC big-endian.
> 
> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> Cc: ARC Maintainers <arc-buildroot at synopsys.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

Applied to master, thanks.

For info, I had to remove a remaining "BR2_arceb" from pkg-meson.mk to
fix a check-symbols error.  See:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/2d570f8369342590836378e86e3d2a65f7fb6fc3

Best regards,

Julien.