Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning

[Paul Brook]

> 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