Merge pull request #62 from athoelke/set-little-endian-v2
Set processor endianness immediately after RESET v2
diff --git a/bl1/aarch64/bl1_arch_setup.c b/bl1/aarch64/bl1_arch_setup.c
index a1ebbdb..5725bac 100644
--- a/bl1/aarch64/bl1_arch_setup.c
+++ b/bl1/aarch64/bl1_arch_setup.c
@@ -39,10 +39,9 @@
{
unsigned long tmp_reg = 0;
- /* Enable alignment checks and set the exception endianess to LE */
+ /* Enable alignment checks */
tmp_reg = read_sctlr_el3();
tmp_reg |= (SCTLR_A_BIT | SCTLR_SA_BIT);
- tmp_reg &= ~SCTLR_EE_BIT;
write_sctlr_el3(tmp_reg);
isb();
diff --git a/bl1/aarch64/bl1_entrypoint.S b/bl1/aarch64/bl1_entrypoint.S
index c081af4..7259601 100644
--- a/bl1/aarch64/bl1_entrypoint.S
+++ b/bl1/aarch64/bl1_entrypoint.S
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@
func bl1_entrypoint
/* ---------------------------------------------
+ * Set the CPU endianness before doing anything
+ * that might involve memory reads or writes
+ * ---------------------------------------------
+ */
+ mrs x0, sctlr_el3
+ bic x0, x0, #SCTLR_EE_BIT
+ msr sctlr_el3, x0
+ isb
+
+ /* ---------------------------------------------
* Perform any processor specific actions upon
* reset e.g. cache, tlb invalidations etc.
* ---------------------------------------------
diff --git a/bl31/aarch64/bl31_arch_setup.c b/bl31/aarch64/bl31_arch_setup.c
index acaa6b5..ad73de0 100644
--- a/bl31/aarch64/bl31_arch_setup.c
+++ b/bl31/aarch64/bl31_arch_setup.c
@@ -45,10 +45,9 @@
unsigned long tmp_reg = 0;
uint64_t counter_freq;
- /* Enable alignment checks and set the exception endianness to LE */
+ /* Enable alignment checks */
tmp_reg = read_sctlr_el3();
tmp_reg |= (SCTLR_A_BIT | SCTLR_SA_BIT);
- tmp_reg &= ~SCTLR_EE_BIT;
write_sctlr_el3(tmp_reg);
/*