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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:26:31 +0100
From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] MIPS little endian system emulation?
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Domen Puncer wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> What would need to be done for qemu to support little endian system
> emulation?
> I tried changing kernel config, to "support" little endian, and it
> even builds it. When i try to boot it with qemu-system-mips it...
> well... doesn't do anything.
> 
> I'm guessing that I need something like qemu-system-mipsel?
> Any hints on how to easily (if that's possible) provide it?

Hi,

I see no reason why the mipsel system emulation cannot be implemented in 
the existing qemu-system-mips with a dynamic switch (I was told that 
some MIPS processor have a bit to dynamically select the endianness). I 
would really prefer that compared to a new target. Note that I added a 
new target for user mode mipsel and armeb just because it would have 
been difficult and inefficient to switch the endianness dynamically in 
the Linux system call converter...

Fabrice.