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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is Little endian supported by Qemu -prep
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On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 19:46 +0200, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> Le jeudi, 7 avr 2005, =E0 18:29 Europe/Paris, Tero Kaarlela a =E9crit :
>=20
> >> Yes, that's the reason. As far as I know, Qemu has no support for
> >> dynamic endian modes.
> >> I did not think any OS did use LE mode...
> >>
> > Hmmm.. It seems that WinNT for PPC does run in Little-endian too...
>=20
> Yes too true. It's rumored that the NT kernel is highly portable but=20
> the Windows is definitely little endian and 32-bit oriented. Hence this=
=20
> unusual LLP64 model.

Yes, right.
But WinNT is still far from booting and crashes, I think, before
checking/swapping the endian mode (don't try: I never commited the
needed patch to support it's own XCOFF format in Open Hack'Ware as I'm
sure it's buggy...)
Then, I add no example of little-endian run on PPC.
What I knew is that some say that VirtualPC use this mode to have a
faster emulation.

Now, it's obvious that the feature is needed.

--=20
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
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