On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 10:39 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 12 August 2013 10:28, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > We have explicit knowledge of when our endianness change (we get the > > hcall or a write to some SPR), we can call virtio *then* to adjust the > > endianness rather than having a call-out to the platform on every > > access. > > ARM doesn't -- I wouldn't expect changing the endianness of > exceptions via writing to the SCTLR to trap to the hypervisor > (and in any case it certainly won't result in a return to > userspace).
But don't you need to reconfigure the bridge (as per our previous discussion) ? In that case you do need to call out to qemu ... Cheers, Ben.