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

On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 11:36 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> If not -- then I prefer to play save and not use a vbe register to avoid
> ending up with two incompatible bochs interface revisions.  If you don't
> like the pci config space option -- the mmio bar has plenty of free
> space left ;)

I'll find something :-)

Another advantage I realize in going down that path is that's yet another
use of target endian removed from hw/ which gets us a little step closer
to having to make the whole hw/ stuff target neutral.

Cheers,
Ben.