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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target |
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Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:40:39 +0100 |
On 18 June 2014 16:37, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> I actually agree with Greg here. We implicitly create different VGA adapters
> today depending on TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN. The FB endianness should have
> been separate devices (BE / LE) or runtime configuration from the beginning.
>
> Anything that checks TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN in hw/ is very likely to do
> something pretty wrong ;).
Directly, yes, it's a bit of a red flag. But a huge % of devices do
indirectly, by marking their memory regions as DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN.
thanks
-- PMM
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, Peter Maydell, 2014/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, Greg Kurz, 2014/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2014/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, Peter Maydell, 2014/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, Alexander Graf, 2014/06/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target,
Peter Maydell <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target, Alexander Graf, 2014/06/18