Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] ARM BE8/BE32 semihosting and gdbstub support.

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 December 2016 at 15:11, Julian Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 22:23:09 +0000
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Strong 'no' for the approach of having different CPU
>> names, I'm afraid. What you want is to have a CPU
>> property which works like the hardware CPU's CFGEND
>> signal to set the reset value of the SCTLR.EE bit. Then
>> a board can use that where it would wire up CFGEND
>> in real hardware, and on the command line you can
>> have -cpu whatever,cfgend=yes (which is a bit ugly
>> but then it's borderline whether it makes any sense at
>> all for the user to be able to set the endianness on
>> the commandline).
>
> How about something like this?

Could you send that as an inline patch rather than
an attachment? Patches hidden in attachments are kind
of painful to deal with.

thanks
-- PMM