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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning |
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Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:05:42 +0000 |
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> On 03/24/2010 05:33 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
> >> But now there is a bigger problem, how to pass the property to the
> >> device. It's not fair to require the user to remember to set it.
> >
> > It should not be a property of the device. All devices have a native
> > endianness (for PCI this is little-endian), and the intermediate
> > busses/interconnects should determine whether byteswapping occurs.
>
> Right, the byte swapping needs to happen at the bus level which requires
> that the PCI regions use a different callback mechanism (and don't
> register directly with the cpu).
Not necessarily a different callback mechanism, but probably a different
registration mechanism.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning, Paul Brook, 2010/03/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning,
Paul Brook <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning, Anthony Liguori, 2010/03/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/03/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning, Paul Brook, 2010/03/25