From: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@us.ibm.com,
paul@codesourcery.com, Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:42:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6110BA.1030904@weilnetz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-tFx-=DbbtA8xKcHQK+dAORaQ6mqoWHY00C8JZ3=cdxw@mail.gmail.com>
Am 14.03.2012 22:37, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 14 March 2012 21:24, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> wrote:
>> Contrary to Paul's argument QEMU does not only support a fixed
>> set of known host architectures, but also unknown hosts (via TCI).
>> For those, there remains a small chance that they are big endian
>> and that they get the wrong endianness now. TCI is still experimental,
>> so I don't care too much about this small deficit.
>
> (speaking with absolutely no idea of the innards of TCI :-))
> I think the correct fix for this is that TCI should be portable
> code which doesn't care about the host endianness.
>
> -- PMM
TCI does not care, but the rest of QEMU cares.
That's why configure determines the endianness.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-14 20:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][v2] configure: change endianness test Stuart Yoder
2012-03-14 21:24 ` Stefan Weil
2012-03-14 21:37 ` Peter Maydell
2012-03-14 21:42 ` Stefan Weil [this message]
2012-03-14 21:49 ` Paul Brook
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