Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] virtio_get_byteswap: function for endian-ambivalent targets using virtio.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 10:45 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 August 2013 10:43, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 10:39 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> ARM doesn't -- I wouldn't expect changing the endianness of
> >> exceptions via writing to the SCTLR to trap to the hypervisor
> >> (and in any case it certainly won't result in a return to
> >> userspace).
> >
> > But don't you need to reconfigure the bridge (as per our previous
> > discussion) ? In that case you do need to call out to qemu ...
> 
> Bridge? You've lost me, I'm afraid.

I must be confused ... you mentioned in a previous discussion around
endianness that on some ARM cores at least, when changing the OS
endianness, you had to configure a different lane swapping in the bridge
to the the IO devices (AXI ?)

But I might be confusing with something else.

Ben.