Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 0/3] ARM: Misc ARM big-endian bug fixes

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 March 2013 09:28, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/19/2013 12:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 19 March 2013 11:21, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Fabien Chouteau (3):
>>>   QAPI: Add ARMEB target-type
>>>   Add default config for armeb-softmmu
>>
>> Hi Fabien. I'm afraid I don't want to take these two unless they
>> come attached to an actual cpu and board model that use them.
>> Otherwise they're really just half-a-feature, I think.
>>
>
> Well these patches are very small, but I think it can help people to get
> started. I submitted them because I thought it was a regression to not
> be able to build qemu-system-armeb.

No, we deliberately don't build qemu-system-armeb because we
don't have any implemented machines which are big-endian ARM.
When the first machine is added to QEMU the patch set adding
that support should turn on building of qemu-system-armeb
(which would then support just that one machine type).

thanks
-- PMM