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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness |
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Fri, 7 Oct 2016 10:52:28 +0100 |
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
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, Peter Maydell, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, Laurent Vivier, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, David Gibson, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, Laurent Vivier, 2016/10/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, Cédric Le Goater, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, Paolo Bonzini, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, David Gibson, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, David Gibson, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, David Gibson, 2016/10/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness,
Peter Maydell <=
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qtest: add read/write accessors with a specific endianness, David Gibson, 2016/10/04