Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/5] ppc64: Fix semihosting on ppc64le

[Richard Henderson]

On 4/20/22 12:42, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 at 20:19, Leandro Lupori
> <leandro.lupori@eldorado.org.br> wrote:
> > PPC64 CPUs can change its endian dynamically, so semihosting code
> > must check its MSR at run time to determine if byte swapping is
> > needed.
>
> Arm CPUs also change endianness dynamically, so why is this
> change PPC-specific ?

I'm reasonably certain that we simply don't test armbe or aarch64_be semihosting.  Leandro 
found this because qemu-system-ppc64 defaults to BE and qemu-system-aarch64 defaults to LE.


r~