Re: [Qemu-devel] [RfC PATCH 08/11] spice: add qxl device

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 04/15/10 00:21, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 14.04.2010, at 11:55, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
> > +static inline void atomic_or(uint32_t *var, uint32_t add)
> > +{
> > +   __asm__ __volatile__ ("lock; orl %1, %0" : "+m" (*var) : "r" (add) : 
> > "memory");
>
> I hope this is going away? I don't see why QXL should be coupled to x86 host 
> and guest only.

Spice on !x86 (especially big endian boxes) isn't going to fly at the 
moment for a number of reasons.  That is considered a bug though and we 
want fix it long-term.  There is nothing fundamental which prevents qxl 
and spice from being used on -- say -- ppc.

cheers,
  Gerd