From: Florian Fainelli Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:23:22 +0200 Message-ID: <515C496A.6050809@openwrt.org> References: <877gkls1q7.fsf@openvz.org> <87r4isd1vn.fsf@openvz.org> <87li90q9mx.fsf@openvz.org> <87hajoq6s2.fsf@openvz.org> <20130403102204.GA15383@gmail.com> <20130403122058.GB7741@thunk.org> <20130403143406.GA3006@wallace> <20130403144114.GB13668@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: Theodore Ts'o , Eric Whitney , Dmitry Monakhov , Christian Kujau , CAI Qian , LKML , linux-s390 , Steve Best , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com ([74.125.83.54]:51206 "EHLO mail-ee0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758907Ab3DCPXl (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Apr 2013 11:23:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130403144114.GB13668@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, Le 04/03/13 16:41, Theodore Ts'o a =C3=A9crit : > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:34:06AM -0400, Eric Whitney wrote: >> >> The TI OMAP4 processor on my Pandaboard test system is little endian= =2E > > Ah... so basically, we need to find a test platform which allows us t= o > boot arbitrary kernels and allows us to have root access (which means > it's unlikely we'll be able to do this via remote access) and which > doesn't have exotic power requirements (which as far as I know rules > out pSeries and zSeries systems....) > > It would also be nice if we could run tests in finite time, which > probably rules out the Hercules emulator (it runs at one-tenth zSerie= s > processor speeds, which doesn't win speed competitions by default, an= d > I suspect their storage speeds are even worse). > > Anyone else have any suggestions? Or anyone willing to help us run > ext4 regression tests on the ext4 dev tree, so we can find these > problems before we merge into mainline? Qemu emulates various mainline PowerPC, MIPS and SPARC big-endian=20 systems pretty efficiently and it should not be too hard neither to=20 script nor to get a recent kernel up and running on these platforms. My 2 cents. -- =46lorian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html