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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver
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On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 11:29 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> This patch fixes several endianness issues detected when running the HVSI
> driver in little endian mode.
> 
> These issues are raised in little endian mode because the data exchanged in
> memory between the kernel and the hypervisor has to be in big endian
> format.

Can you include the sparse output before and after?

cheers