Re: [Qemu-devel] PING for-1.6 Re: [PATCH for-1.6] fw_cfg: the I/O port variant expects little-endian

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 08/05/13 18:21, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/28/2013 02:35 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> The I/O port variant of fw_cfg is used by sparc64, which is a
>> big-endian machine.
>> Firmware swaps bytes before sending them to fw_cfg, so we need to
>> unswap them in
>> the device.
>>
>> This is only used on sparc64 and on (little-endian) x86, so it does
>> not affect
>> any other target.  32-bit Sparc and PPC all use memory-mapped fw_cfg.
>>
>> Reported-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> index 0a35015..d0820e5 100644
>> --- a/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> +++ b/hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c
>> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static const MemoryRegionOps fw_cfg_data_mem_ops = {
>>   static const MemoryRegionOps fw_cfg_comb_mem_ops = {
>>       .read = fw_cfg_comb_read,
>>       .write = fw_cfg_comb_write,
>> -    .endianness = DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN,
>> +    .endianness = DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN,
>>       .valid.accepts = fw_cfg_comb_valid,
>>   };
>>
>>
> 
> Ping.
> 

Not sure if you were asking for a review, but the patch and the argument
in the commit msg look sane to me.

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>