[PATCH][aarch64] Fix the big endian loader name

[Marcus Shawcroft]

On 6 March 2015 at 16:24, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/2015 05:48 AM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>> AArch64 uses arch specific configure.ac fragment to set HAVE_AARCH64_BE
>> in config.h so later the loader name can be decided based on this macro.
>>
>> However config.h.in needs an appropriate line to generate the macro.
>>
>> I think the loader name should be managed in a simpler way for future
>> abi variants.
>>
>> Changelog:
>>
>> 2015-03-06  Szabolcs Nagy  <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
>>
>>       * config.h.in (HAVE_AARCH64_BE): Add.
>>
>
> Since you are talking about the "long term", what you propose is
> not what we want.
>
> Roland, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the consensus
> was that all machine-dependent macros should move out of the top-level
> config.h.in, and into the machine directories.
>
> Unfortunately that requires work and rejiggering and we just keep
> putting the machine macros into the top-level config.h.in.

Looks to me that this change is need to make the existing configure.ac
work as intended.  I would have thought it is better to separate such
fixes from restructure work.
Cheers
/Marcus