From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] virtio: change config to guest endian.
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:08:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804221708.39452.hollisb@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804230705.38495.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Tuesday 22 April 2008 16:05:38 Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 06:29:14 Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 09:31:35 Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > We may still regret not doing *everything* little-endian, but this
> > > doesn't make it worse.
> >
> > Hmm, why *don't* we just do everything LE, including the ring?
>
> Mainly because when requirements are in doubt, simplicity wins, I think.
Well, I think the definition of simplicity is up for debate in this
case... "LE everywhere" is much simpler than "it depends", IMHO.
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-22 3:57 [RFC PATCH] virtio: change config to guest endian Rusty Russell
2008-04-22 7:44 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-04-22 14:40 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-22 11:22 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 14:31 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-22 20:29 ` [kvm-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2008-04-22 21:05 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-22 22:08 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2008-04-22 22:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 22:33 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-04-22 23:53 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-04-22 16:21 ` [kvm-devel] " Hollis Blanchard
2008-04-23 10:55 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-04-23 12:38 ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-23 12:47 ` Christian Borntraeger
2008-04-23 15:53 ` [kvm-devel] " Rusty Russell
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