From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36417) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V97Bg-0008RW-14 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:30:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V97Ba-0003fv-0T for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:30:31 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:37902) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V97BZ-0003fd-Oi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 01:30:25 -0400 Message-ID: <1376371812.4255.0.camel@pasglop> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:30:12 +1000 In-Reply-To: <87a9kmmdca.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <1376294363-4650-1-git-send-email-rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <1376294363-4650-2-git-send-email-rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <1376299687.32100.159.camel@pasglop> <87txivrrsz.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <87a9kmmdca.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] virtio_get_byteswap: function for endian-ambivalent targets using virtio. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Rusty Russell Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 13:50 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > We can have it call once (eg. when the first and storing the status > word) and store the result. And fail with kexec of a different endian kernel :-) Let's not bother yet. Merge it and then we see if we can optimize. Cheers, Ben.