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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test |
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Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:37:12 +0000 |
On 14 March 2012 21:24, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Contrary to Paul's argument QEMU does not only support a fixed
> set of known host architectures, but also unknown hosts (via TCI).
> For those, there remains a small chance that they are big endian
> and that they get the wrong endianness now. TCI is still experimental,
> so I don't care too much about this small deficit.
(speaking with absolutely no idea of the innards of TCI :-))
I think the correct fix for this is that TCI should be portable
code which doesn't care about the host endianness.
-- PMM