Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/6] Use IO port for qemu<->guest BIOS communication.

[Blue Swirl]

On 8/29/08, Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:04:11PM +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
>  > On 8/28/08, Gleb Natapov <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > >  +    fw_cfg_add(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_ID, (uint8_t *)&bios_cfg_id,
>  > >  +               sizeof(bios_cfg_id));
>  >
>  > On second thought, this is in host byte order, which is not a good idea.
>  >
>
> Is there some function to convert from host byte order to target byte
>  order?

Nothing generic like cpu_to_target.

Because the only read access method is byte by byte, we could use
little endian order and as a side benefit, the numbers would be
automatically zero extended as needed.