Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.0 V3] tests/acpi-test: do not run iasl on big endian machines

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 March 2014 09:49, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> At this point I'm confused.
> If iasl compiler is broken, we should detect and fix that.
> It might be ok to just detect endian-ness as a quick work-around.
> BTW configure already has code to detect endian-ness:
> if test "$bigendian" = "yes" ; then
>   echo "HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN=y" >> $config_host_mak
> fi

That's the endianness of the machine we're compiling QEMU
for, not the endianness of the machine we're compiling QEMU
on. If for instance you're on x86_64 cross-compiling for PPC
then HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN is true, but the iasl you use
in the build process will be running on a little endian machine.

thanks
-- PMM