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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:43:46 +0100
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
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	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] arm64: Remove unused big-endian support
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 03:01:19PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Big-endian support on arm64 (CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) has depended on
> BROKEN since 1cf89b6bf660 ("arm64: Kconfig: Make CPU_BIG_ENDIAN depend
> on BROKEN") and has already seen some clean-up patches removing some of
> the unused support code (e.g. 5276ea17a23c ("lib/crc: arm64: Assume a
> little-endian kernel")).
> 
> Finish the job, and remove the remaining big-endian support code from
> arm64. Note that the SETEND emulation for 32-bit tasks remains and so
> some of the mixed-endian EL0 helpers are retained.

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>