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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tests/bios-tables-test: Fix endianess problems when passing data to iasl
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:09:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171121190647-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171121175812.6f922e2e@redhat.com>

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:58:12PM +0100, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> anyways, if you prefer having mixed endianness here, I won't mind much,
> as impact of test case is much smaller so we'll see down the road
> if it became any better.

I agree here.

> (as far as we continue going in direction
> of using host byteorder within main qemu acpi code, which we were
> doing by gradually converting acpi structures to build_append_foo API)

So APIs are absolutely a good alternative. If we get rid of
packed structures in main qemu code, we could convert tests
to whatever makes sense for tests.

-- 
MST

      reply	other threads:[~2017-11-21 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-16 12:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] tests/bios-tables-test: Fix endianess problems when passing data to iasl Thomas Huth
2017-11-20 16:55 ` Igor Mammedov
2017-11-20 20:00   ` Thomas Huth
2017-11-20 20:32   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-21 13:26     ` Igor Mammedov
2017-11-21 14:47       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-21 15:58         ` Igor Mammedov
2017-11-21 16:02           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-21 16:22             ` Igor Mammedov
2017-11-21 16:31               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-11-21 16:58                 ` Igor Mammedov
2017-11-21 17:09                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]

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