On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 02:43:06AM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:22:01AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:07:46PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > > Um.. why?  PCI is defined by the spec to be LE, so I don't see that we
> > > need explicit endianness versions for PCI helpers.
> > 
> > LE in the spec only applies to structures defined by the spec,
> > that is pci configuration and msix tables in device memory.
> 
> Well, true.  But when was the last time you saw a PCI device with BE
> registers?  I think it's a rare enough case that the individual device
> models can reswap themselves.

s/BE registers/BE DMA accessed structures/

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