Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:23:22 +0200 | From | Florian Fainelli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext4: fix a big-endian bug when an extent is zeroed out |
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Hello,
Le 04/03/13 16:41, Theodore Ts'o a écrit : > 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. > > Ah... so basically, we need to find a test platform which allows us to > 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 zSeries > processor speeds, which doesn't win speed competitions by default, and > 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 systems pretty efficiently and it should not be too hard neither to script nor to get a recent kernel up and running on these platforms.
My 2 cents. -- Florian -- 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/
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