From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Compile files only once: some planning
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:50:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAA9732.60909@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003242233.46516.paul@codesourcery.com>
On 03/24/2010 05:33 PM, Paul Brook wrote:
>> 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.
>
Right, the byte swapping needs to happen at the bus level which requires
that the PCI regions use a different callback mechanism (and don't
register directly with the cpu).
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Paul
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-24 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 21:43 [Qemu-devel] Compile files only once: some planning Blue Swirl
2010-03-24 9:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2010-03-24 17:56 ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-24 19:28 ` Juan Quintela
2010-03-24 22:47 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-24 22:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-25 3:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-25 2:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-24 9:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-24 11:19 ` Richard Henderson
2010-03-24 14:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-24 14:56 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-24 16:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-03-24 17:27 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-24 17:07 ` Richard Henderson
2010-03-24 20:12 ` Richard Henderson
2010-03-24 18:00 ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-24 19:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-24 20:05 ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-24 20:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-24 20:24 ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-24 20:24 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-24 20:32 ` Blue Swirl
2010-03-24 20:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-24 21:00 ` Aurelien Jarno
2010-03-24 22:33 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-24 22:50 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-03-24 23:05 ` Paul Brook
2010-03-24 23:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-03-25 8:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-03-25 12:01 ` Paul Brook
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