Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] target-ppc: ppc can be either endian

[Alexander Graf]

> Am 07.05.2014 um 11:26 schrieb Peter Maydell <address@hidden>:
> 
>> On 7 May 2014 10:09, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I don't think we should overengineer hacks for legacy virtio.
> 
> Agreed. So what's our final conclusion: virtio endianness
> is the endianness of the guest kernel at the point where
> it triggers a reset of the virtio device, yes?

The interrupt endianness for book3s PPC. Since that's an arch specific thing I 
think we should just make the determination mechanism arch dependent and list 
it in the spec.

Booke for example would be vastly different since there is no global LE flag - 
it's a bit in the TLB entries.


Alex