Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] target-ppc: ppc can be either endian

2014-04-29 Thread Alexander Graf
On 29.04.14 11:15, Greg Kurz wrote: POWER7, POWER7+ and POWER8 families use the ILE bit of the LPCR special purpose register to decide the endianness to use when entering interrupt handlers. When running a Linux guest, this provides a hint on the endianness used by the kernel. From a QEMU point

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] target-ppc: ppc can be either endian

2014-04-29 Thread Greg Kurz
POWER7, POWER7+ and POWER8 families use the ILE bit of the LPCR special purpose register to decide the endianness to use when entering interrupt handlers. When running a Linux guest, this provides a hint on the endianness used by the kernel. From a QEMU point of view, the information is needed for