Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix curses on big endian hosts

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 12:41:10AM +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 31.12.2010 um 20:10 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 05:42:43PM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>> I'm also puzzled by the uses of TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN in
>>> hw/vga_template.h. I'd suppose that VGA (especially PCI devices)  
>>> would
>>> be always little endian, so why the checks?
>>>
>>
>> I also don't explain them. I have tried to remove them, and powerpc  
>> and
>> sparc target still seems to work.
>
> Does it have any effect on the penguin colors? Blue and me once fiddled 
> to remedy Tux' foot-and-beak disease on Darwin/i386, and I remember 
> seeing apparently random colors for ppc guests on various hosts:
>
> http://afaerber.planche.de/#ppc_2009_12_20
>

No, it doesn't change anything related to the graphic mode, it only
affects curses.

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