We have seen some generic code use config parameter CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
to decide the endianness.
Here are the few examples.
include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
drivers/of/base.c
drivers/of/fdt.c
drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
Display warning if CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is not defined on big endian
architecture and also warn if it defined on little endian architectures.
Here is our original discussion
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/24/620
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499358861-179979-4-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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