Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tests/bios-tables-test: Fix endianess problems when passing data to iasl

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:58:12PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> anyways, if you prefer having mixed endianness here, I won't mind much,
> as impact of test case is much smaller so we'll see down the road
> if it became any better.

I agree here.

> (as far as we continue going in direction
> of using host byteorder within main qemu acpi code, which we were
> doing by gradually converting acpi structures to build_append_foo API)

So APIs are absolutely a good alternative. If we get rid of
packed structures in main qemu code, we could convert tests
to whatever makes sense for tests.

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MST