[PATCH] fix root cause of NAND trouble

Werner Almesberger werner at openmoko.org
Sat Nov 1 06:19:03 CET 2008


Andy Green wrote:
> I never used big-endian ARM, but it seems neither of us are quite sure
> what it'd do.

I haven't even found how you're supposed to switch to big-endian mode.
They mention that there's a BIGEND signal to the core, but there's no
indication of how you'd set it. Perhaps yet another feature that didn't
work, so it was dropped halfway through the design.

Hmm, I wonder if it might be BWSCON[0] :-)

> It's the kind of thing you'll get jumped on for by the Lictors of Upstream.

Heh, at least for 2440, we should be safe - if you look at the register
map, there's a lot of registers that change address if going big-endian.
And of course, there's no provision in the kernel for easily switching
those addresses.

- Werner



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