From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-pci: Fix endianness of virtio config
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:49:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326235758.23910.75.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485923AD-E235-4412-9B60-2E0736FB74D1@suse.de>
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:41 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> No. Libhw shouldn't be able to know anything about target endianness.
> If a device is as brokenly spec'ed as virtio and is coupled to the
> "main CPU endianness", it clearly belongs with the CPU, not into
> libhw.
Ok, can you guys solve this and tell me what I should do ? :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-pci: Fix endianness of virtio config
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:49:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326235758.23910.75.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485923AD-E235-4412-9B60-2E0736FB74D1@suse.de>
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:41 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> No. Libhw shouldn't be able to know anything about target endianness.
> If a device is as brokenly spec'ed as virtio and is coupled to the
> "main CPU endianness", it clearly belongs with the CPU, not into
> libhw.
Ok, can you guys solve this and tell me what I should do ? :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: Fix endianness of virtio config
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:49:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326235758.23910.75.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <485923AD-E235-4412-9B60-2E0736FB74D1@suse.de>
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 23:41 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> No. Libhw shouldn't be able to know anything about target endianness.
> If a device is as brokenly spec'ed as virtio and is coupled to the
> "main CPU endianness", it clearly belongs with the CPU, not into
> libhw.
Ok, can you guys solve this and tell me what I should do ? :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-10 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 11:35 [PATCH] virtio-pci: Fix endianness of virtio config Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 11:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 20:30 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 20:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 20:30 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 20:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andreas Färber
2012-01-10 20:35 ` Andreas Färber
2012-01-10 20:35 ` Andreas Färber
2012-01-10 20:46 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 20:46 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 20:46 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 21:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 21:45 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 21:45 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 21:45 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-10 22:02 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2012-01-10 22:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-10 22:41 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:41 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-01-10 22:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-01-10 22:52 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:52 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:57 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alexander Graf
2012-01-10 22:57 ` Alexander Graf
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