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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability |
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Mon, 6 Jul 2015 10:46:31 +0200 |
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On 06/07/2015 10:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Also, by luck, some values work the same whatever the endian-ness.
> E.g. dma_memory_set fills the buffer with a given pattern, so
> nothing changes if you byte-swap it.
>
> Here's an example that's wrong: dp8393x. Typically it's accessing
> memory for DMA, so there's no byteswap. Works fine.
>
> But should device attempt to access another device memory,
> it would break because MIPS target is BE.
>
> Cc Hervé for confirmation.
>
> I conclude that virtio is not so special in needing a variant
> of address_space_rw that assumes host endian format for the data.
Why host endian and not device (in this case little) endian?
Paolo
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/07/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Peter Maydell, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Peter Maydell, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Peter Maydell, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2015/07/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: implement cfg capability, Paolo Bonzini, 2015/07/06