From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4GFE-00044v-7D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:10:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I4GFC-00043K-QZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:10:39 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I4GFC-00043H-Ji for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:10:38 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I4GFC-0002Fi-0d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:10:38 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] e100 savevm/loadvm support Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:10:34 +0100 References: <468502CD.4010400@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <468502CD.4010400@windriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706291410.35027.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > One note about this patch is that the image is not portable across > big/little endian hosts. Since it already appeared that the save/load > images in general are not portable between a big/little endian hosts I > just took the short cut of pushing the struct members that were not > being saved directly into the save buffer. If it is the case that the > save/load images are supposed to be endian agnostic, there is definitely > some more work that needs to be done in all the simulated hw drivers. Save/load images definitely are supports to be host-independent. Do you have examples of where they are not? Paul