r227088 - For NetBSD/ARM-EB, link with --be8. Support for the older BE32 is
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Jan 26 09:33:05 PST 2015
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 09:26:59AM -0800, Tim Northover wrote:
> >> I maintain this patch should not have been committed, at least without
> >> more thought and discussion.
> >
> > A ARM-EB binary without --be8 is rejected by a NetBSD kernel running on
> > ARMv7. While there are some older Big Endian ARM systems around, there
> > are very hard to find, so motivation for supporting them is quite small.
>
> What about behaviour on other systems. I think myopic commits fixing
> just NetBSD are unacceptable.
I simply don't know what other systems expect.
Joerg
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