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authorAntony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>2021-05-11 11:36:48 +0300
committerSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>2021-05-12 07:35:54 +0200
commit1b2c92b76e8fd9185115c51f47056060ade5ec26 (patch)
tree9c5392745dc6b84f4e0c1f01e57352293f982835 /common
parentf1d48ad3f887c8f23c907ea54e7e6850e1bea17e (diff)
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startup: introduce global.endianness variable
The global.endianness variable makes it possible to determine current endian mode from command line or from script on bi-endian capable system. Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.barebox.org/20210511083648.134890-1-antonynpavlov@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'common')
-rw-r--r--common/globalvar.c13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/common/globalvar.c b/common/globalvar.c
index a55b38b00f..8bb5015ce4 100644
--- a/common/globalvar.c
+++ b/common/globalvar.c
@@ -641,6 +641,8 @@ int globalvar_add_simple_ip(const char *name, IPaddr_t *ip)
static int globalvar_init(void)
{
+ const char *endianness;
+
register_device(&global_device);
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NVVAR))
@@ -651,6 +653,16 @@ static int globalvar_init(void)
if (strlen(buildsystem_version_string) > 0)
globalvar_add_simple("buildsystem.version", buildsystem_version_string);
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
+ endianness = "big";
+#elif defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
+ endianness = "little";
+#else
+#error "could not determine byte order"
+#endif
+
+ globalvar_add_simple("endianness", endianness);
+
return 0;
}
pure_initcall(globalvar_init);
@@ -658,6 +670,7 @@ pure_initcall(globalvar_init);
BAREBOX_MAGICVAR(global.version, "The barebox version");
BAREBOX_MAGICVAR(global.buildsystem.version,
"version of buildsystem barebox was built with");
+BAREBOX_MAGICVAR(global.endianness, "The barebox endianness");
/**
* nvvar_save - save NV variables to persistent environment