From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NuZ96-00065i-WB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:33:53 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42620 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NuZ94-00065B-RU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:33:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuZ93-0006Yy-LI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:33:50 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:44592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NuZ93-0006Yu-Js for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:33:49 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([38.113.113.100]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NuZ93-0001Se-1c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:33:49 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:33:46 +0000 References: <20100324193903.GA11004@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003242233.46516.paul@codesourcery.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Blue Swirl , "Michael S. Tsirkin" > But now there is a bigger problem, how to pass the property to the > device. It's not fair to require the user to remember to set it. It should not be a property of the device. All devices have a native endianness (for PCI this is little-endian), and the intermediate busses/interconnects should determine whether byteswapping occurs. Paul