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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu VGA endian swap low level drawing
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To: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 12:00 +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> There has been a discussion already about virtio endianness: relying on
> a guest system wide setting such as LPCR_ILE has been strongly rejected
> at the time... The consensus for virtio is "device endianness is the
> endianness of the CPU that does the reset" (hence MSR_LE for PPC).

How on earth did anybody reach such a conclusion ? Of all the possible
options I can think of this is the one that makes the *less* sense !

Cheers,
Ben.