Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755233AbaDXKr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 06:47:26 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:60185 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754084AbaDXKrC (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2014 06:47:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:46:24 +0100 From: Will Deacon To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Steve Capper , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , Catalin Marinas , "robherring2@gmail.com" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM Message-ID: <20140424104624.GD19564@arm.com> References: <1397648803-15961-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> <20140424102229.GA28014@linaro.org> <20140424103639.GC19564@arm.com> <20140424104232.GK26756@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140424104232.GK26756@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:42:32AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > I guess I'm after some commitment that this is (a) useful to somebody and > > (b) going to be tested regularly, otherwise it will go the way of things > > like big-endian, where we end up carrying around code which is broken more > > often than not (although big-endian is more self-contained). > > It may be something worth considering adding to my nightly builder/boot > testing, but I suspect that's impractical as it probably requires a BE > userspace, which would then mean that the platform can't boot LE. > > I suspect that we will just have to rely on BE users staying around and > reporting problems when they occur. Indeed. Marc and I have BE guests running under kvmtool on an LE host, so that's what I've been using (then a BE busybox can sit in the host filesystem and be passed via something like 9pfs). Will -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/