From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDBC-0005sn-VP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:08:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VKDB7-0001DG-5E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:07:54 -0400 Sender: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <52321F0F.4080903@twiddle.net> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:07:43 -0700 From: Richard Henderson MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1379009870-18323-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de> <52320A4C.6020202@twiddle.net> <52320EB5.9030208@weilnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <52320EB5.9030208@weilnetz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tci: Fix qemu-alpha on 32 bit hosts (wrong assertions) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefan Weil Cc: qemu-trivial , qemu-devel , qemu-stable On 09/12/2013 11:57 AM, Stefan Weil wrote: > Thanks for your hint. Yes, as you can see from tcg/tci/README,the test > matrix of TCI > did not include big endian hosts up to now. Testing on an emulated big > endian Malta > system is terribly slow, and I have no access to real big endian > hardware fortests. Recall that we're not necessarily talking about big-endian host, but big-endian target on little-endian host. I don't see any byte swapping going on here at all. FYI, the smoke-test I use for big-endian is $ qemu-system-sparc -nographic Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 32 CPUs: 1 x FMI,MB86904 UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Jul 30 2013 21:43 Type 'help' for detailed information Trying disk... No valid state has been set by load or init-program 0 > At which point you can signal the monitor to exit with ctrl-a x. > But I think that such changes are independent of this patchwhich can be > applied as it is. Fair enough. In which case Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson r~