Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tci: Fix qemu-alpha on 32 bit hosts (wrong assertions)

[Stefan Weil]

Am 12.09.2013 22:07, schrieb Richard Henderson:
> On 09/12/2013 11:57 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Thanks for your hint. Yes, as you can see from tcg/tci/README,the test
>> matrix of TCI
>> did not include big endian hosts up to now. Testing on an emulated big
>> endian Malta
>> system is terribly slow, and I have no access to real big endian
>> hardware fortests.
> Recall that we're not necessarily talking about big-endian host,
> but big-endian target on little-endian host.  I don't see any
> byte swapping going on here at all.
>
> FYI, the smoke-test I use for big-endian is
>
> $ qemu-system-sparc -nographic
> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 32
> CPUs: 1 x FMI,MB86904
> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Jul 30 2013 21:43
>   Type 'help' for detailed information
> Trying disk...
> No valid state has been set by load or init-program
>
> 0 >
>
> At which point you can signal the monitor to exit with ctrl-a x.

TCI passes your smoke-test on i686, x86_64 and maybe also on
ARM hosts (ARM is still running, up to now it got the first line of
the test done).