Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Do endian swapping.

[Uri Lublin]

On 01/03/2017 08:16 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> This allows running big endian and little endian guest side by side using
> cut & paste between them.
>
> There is a general design idea that swapping should come as close to
> virtio_read/virtio_write as possible. In particular, the protocol
> between vdagent and vdagentd is guest-specific and in native endian.
> With muliple layers of headers this is a bit tricky. A few message types
> have to be swapped fully before passing through vdagentd.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <address@hidden>

Hi Michal,

Please send these patches to spice-devel mailing list.

Thanks,
    Uri.

> ---
> v2:
>  - introduce helper functions to swap (a portion of) a message wholesale
>  - pollute fewer places with swapping sometimes at the cost of slightly
>    more verbose code
> ---
>  src/vdagentd/vdagentd.c    | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  src/vdagentd/virtio-port.c | 35 ++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)