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From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com>,
	hollisb@us.ibm.com, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Enable MPIC for E500
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:41:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090219224153.GE27283@hall.aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580902170655w4dadb1aem31bf8d5d6742d50e@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:55:51PM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 2/17/09, Liu Yu <yu.liu@freescale.com> wrote:
> > MPIC and OpenPIC have very similar design.
> >  So a lot of code can be reused.
> >
> >  Modification mainly include:
> >  1. keep struct openpic_t to the maximum size of both MPIC and OpenPIC.
> >  2. endianess swap.
> >    MPIC has the same endianess as target, so no need to swap for MPIC.
> 
> I don't think this is correct, the host can still be different endian
> from target.
> 

I do not agree. As long as we don't manipulate host memory, the host
endianess has nothing to do. The values are simply passed by value, they
don't need to be swapped.

-- 
Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-17  9:59 powerpc/kvm: Add MPC8544DS board support Liu Yu
2009-02-17  9:59 ` [PATCH 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Enable MPIC for E500 platform Liu Yu
2009-02-17  9:59   ` [PATCH 2/5] kvm/powerpc: Add freescale pci controller's support Liu Yu
2009-02-17  9:59     ` [PATCH 3/5] kvm/powerpc: Add irq support for E500 core Liu Yu
2009-02-17  9:59       ` [PATCH 4/5] kvm/powerpc: Add MPC8544DS board support Liu Yu
2009-02-17  9:59         ` [PATCH 5/5] kvm/powerpc: flat device tree files for MPC8544DS Liu Yu
2009-02-17 15:28         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] kvm/powerpc: Add MPC8544DS board support Blue Swirl
2009-02-18  7:01           ` Liu Yu-B13201
2009-02-17 15:09     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] kvm/powerpc: Add freescale pci Blue Swirl
2009-02-17 16:08       ` M. Warner Losh
2009-02-17 16:23         ` M. Warner Losh
2009-02-17 17:41           ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] kvm/powerpc: Add freescale pci controller's support Jamie Lokier
2009-02-18  6:04       ` Liu Yu-B13201
2009-02-17 14:55   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Enable MPIC for E500 Blue Swirl
2009-02-18  7:17     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Enable MPIC for E500 platform Liu Yu-B13201
2009-02-19 22:41     ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
2009-02-20 17:20       ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] kvm/powerpc: Enable MPIC for E500 Blue Swirl

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