Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix curses on big endian hosts

[Andreas Färber]

Am 31.12.2010 um 20:10 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:

> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 05:42:43PM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > I'm also puzzled by the uses of TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN in
> > hw/vga_template.h. I'd suppose that VGA (especially PCI devices)  
> > would
> > be always little endian, so why the checks?
>
> I also don't explain them. I have tried to remove them, and powerpc  
> and
> sparc target still seems to work.

Does it have any effect on the penguin colors? Blue and me once  
fiddled to remedy Tux' foot-and-beak disease on Darwin/i386, and I  
remember seeing apparently random colors for ppc guests on various  
hosts:

http://afaerber.planche.de/#ppc_2009_12_20

Andreas