Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/9] exec: add endian specific phys ld/st functions

[Blue Swirl]

Thanks, applied all.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Am 06.07.2011 um 09:09 schrieb Alexander Graf <address@hidden>:
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>> Device code some times needs to access physical memory and does that
>> through the ld./st._phys functions. However, these are the exact same
>> functions that the CPU uses to access memory, which means they will
>> be endianness swapped depending on the target CPU.
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>> However, devices don't know about the CPU's endianness, but instead
>> access memory directly using their own interface to the memory bus,
>> so they need some way to read data with their native endianness.
>>
>> This patch adds _le and _be functions to ld./st._phys.
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> Blue, mind to apply at least this one if there are no concerns? The API it 
> adds makes sense IMHO and I don't want to hold up the megasas patch due to it 
> ;).
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> Alex
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