On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 03:50:55PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:47:45AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:33 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin > > <li...@armlinux.org.uk> wrote: > > > 32-bit ARM experience is that telco class users really like big > > > endian. > > > > Right, basically anyone with a large code base migrated over from a > > big-endian MIPS or PowerPC legacy that found it cheaper to change > > the rest of the world than to fix their own code. > > I think you need to step off your soap box! Big endian isn't going > away, and it likely has nothing to do with code bases. Just look at > networking and telco protocols. Everything in that world tends to > be big endian. BE is what is understood in that world, and there's > little we can do to change it. > > Demanding that they switch to LE is tantamount to you demanding that > their entire world change - it ain't going to happen.
Oh, I wasn't demanding anything! Just interested to know if big-endian is actually being used because it's not something that I'm able to test sensibly and I haven't see anywhere near the amount of (public) effort to keep it supported as for little-endian. However, having asked the question, it's clear that it does have some users so we'll keep maintaining it on a best-effort basis and rely on those users to let us know if anything breaks. Will