Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/24/2010 05:33 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
> > But now there is a bigger problem, how to pass the property to the
> > device. It's not fair to require the user to remember to set it.
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> It should not be a property of the device. All devices have a native
> endianness (for PCI this is little-endian), and the intermediate
> busses/interconnects should determine whether byteswapping occurs.
>    

Right, the byte swapping needs to happen at the bus level which requires 
that the PCI regions use a different callback mechanism (and don't 
register directly with the cpu).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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