Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 October 2016 at 00:31, David Gibson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Honestly I think TAGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN is just a hangover from when
> nearly all CPUs worked exclusively in one endianness.  It's never
> terribly well defined.

Feel free to try to get rid of it, but it's baked into the
KVM ABI as a concept and also important for TCG efficiency.
It works fine both for "always one endianness" systems and
for "programmably variable" CPUs like ARM.

thanks
-- PMM