Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: Fix cross compilation for mipsel

[Richard Henderson]

On 08/27/2013 09:02 AM, James Hogan wrote:
> The configure script was setting HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN for all $cpu =
> mips|mips64 when cross compiling, since endianness cannot be detected by
> running a test program. This includes little endian MIPS though. It
> didn't cause any build errors but does prevent QEMU from working
> correctly. Instead, detect the endianness similar to how we do for ARM,
> by checking for the __MIPSEB__ builtin processor definition.
> 
> This is from a hunk in the "[PATCH 8/12] KVM/MIPS: Enable KVM/MIPS for
> MIPS targets. Add MIPS GIC code to the build" patch by Sanjay Lal [1].

Redundant with Mike Frysinger's more general patch,

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/256001/


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