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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu VGA endian swap low level drawing changes
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:09:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1402999758.7661.129.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140617120044.3ae839fa@bahia.local>

On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 12:00 +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> There has been a discussion already about virtio endianness: relying on
> a guest system wide setting such as LPCR_ILE has been strongly rejected
> at the time... The consensus for virtio is "device endianness is the
> endianness of the CPU that does the reset" (hence MSR_LE for PPC).

How on earth did anybody reach such a conclusion ? Of all the possible
options I can think of this is the one that makes the *less* sense !

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-17 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-17  3:07 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu VGA endian swap low level drawing changes Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17  4:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17  4:59   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17  5:36     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17  6:06       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17  9:18       ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-06-17  9:26         ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-17 10:00         ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-17 10:09           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2014-06-17 10:19             ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 10:57               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 11:40             ` Greg Kurz
2014-06-17 11:53               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 12:05                 ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 10:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-17 11:08   ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 11:24     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-17 11:42       ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-19 12:33         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-19 13:01           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17 11:15   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 11:57     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-17 21:32       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 22:12         ` Peter Maydell
2014-06-17 22:55           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-17 23:05             ` Alexander Graf
2014-06-17 23:16               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-18 11:18         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-18 13:03           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-19  9:36             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-21  5:37               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-22  2:10                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-23  1:13                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-06-30 11:14                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-06-30 12:32                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-01  8:20                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01  8:26                         ` Alexander Graf
2014-07-01  8:31                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-01  9:07                             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01  9:19                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-01 11:15                                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01 11:23                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-02  9:19                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-02  9:21                                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-02 12:12                                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-02 12:16                                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06  2:19                                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06  5:49                                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06  6:46                                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06  7:05                                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06  7:22                                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06  8:15                                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 10:13                                                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 11:08                                                     ` Alexander Graf
2014-07-06 11:13                                                       ` Peter Maydell
2014-07-06 11:23                                                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-06 13:09                                                           ` Peter Maydell
2014-07-06 20:56                                                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-07  0:08                                                               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-07 10:13                                                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-07  9:38                                                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-06  5:53                                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-01 12:06                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-01  8:59                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-07-01  9:35                           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-07-01  9:33                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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