Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 00/20] virtio endian-ambivalent target

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 June 2014 16:37, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> I actually agree with Greg here. We implicitly create different VGA adapters
> today depending on TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN. The FB endianness should have
> been separate devices (BE / LE) or runtime configuration from the beginning.
>
> Anything that checks TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN in hw/ is very likely to do
> something pretty wrong ;).

Directly, yes, it's a bit of a red flag. But a huge % of devices do
indirectly, by marking their memory regions as DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN.

thanks
-- PMM