On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:09:18 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 12:00 +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > > There has been a discussion already about virtio endianness: relying on > > a guest system wide setting such as LPCR_ILE has been strongly rejected > > at the time... The consensus for virtio is "device endianness is the > > endianness of the CPU that does the reset" (hence MSR_LE for PPC). > > How on earth did anybody reach such a conclusion ? Of all the possible > options I can think of this is the one that makes the *less* sense ! > This conclusion was reached while discussing dump support where we use LPCR_ILE, and I wanted to add a common helper to be used by virtio. Please find the thread in the link below: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-05/msg00415.html Can you elaborate on the "less sense" opinion please ? > Cheers, > Ben. > > Thanks. -- Gregory Kurz kurzg...@fr.ibm.com gk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Software Engineer @ IBM/Meiosys http://www.ibm.com Tel +33 (0)562 165 496 "Anarchy is about taking complete responsibility for yourself." Alan Moore.
