Re: Introduce support for little endian PowerPC

Olof Johansson
2010-10-01T22:03:44Z

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 06:51:55AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 12:59 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > I'm not against it, and I agree some of the patches seem like good
> > clean up. I'm concerned about this bit rotting pretty quickly.
>
> Maybe. Most of it doesn't seem to be that bit-rottable.
>
> The changes to the asm stuff in misc_32.S for example are functions we
> never ever touch once written (libgcc replacements) so I don't see them
> rotting more with LE support than they did with BE :-)

Does KVM/qemu support running LE guest on BE host? That'd help keeping
the bitrot lower. :)

-Olof