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Date:   Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:00:19 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mkpiggy: Drop endianness transforming
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Cao,

On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, Cao jin wrote:

> gzip file has 4-byte little-endian file size encoded at the end of file,
> while all the other compressed kernel file has size_append operation in
> the Makefile which also append the 4-byte little-endian file size. There
> is no need to do endianness transforming by mkpiggy.

Did you test that on a BE host cross-compiling the kernel for x86?

Thanks,

	tglx