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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
To: "\"Doug Kwan (關振德)\"" <dougkwan@google.com>
Cc: riku.voipio@iki.fi, "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] PPC: Allow little-endian user mode.
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 11:11:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536B4A52.8020903@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH9SEo7SHJNNuxKNQqEfYh8diEV85uD36M1y8y_LpZfZ7o0SLw@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/08/2014 11:05 AM, Doug Kwan (關振德) wrote:
> There are a few places where we do 128-bit loads/store.  We need to 
> swap the high/low halves and also do byteswap for each half.  Byteswap 
> of each half is handled differently depending on 
> TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN but the swapping of high/low halves is always 
> controlled by msr.le.  Would our intention be clearer if defined 
> another function swap_high_low_64_bits() instead of msr.le?

This is my last warning about top posting. One more top post and I will 
ignore any future email from you.

The explanation makes a lot of sense. This probably just deserves a 
quick comment in the code so that nobody stumbles over this when he 
looks at it :).


Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-08  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-08  8:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Adding new user mode target ppc64el-linux-user Doug Kwan
2014-05-08  8:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] linux-user: Handle ELFv2 PPC64 binaries in user mode Doug Kwan
2014-05-08  8:36   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08  8:43     ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08  8:45       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08 13:30       ` Ulrich Weigand
2014-05-08  8:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] PPC: Allow little-endian " Doug Kwan
2014-05-08  8:39   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08  8:49     ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08  8:55       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08  9:05         ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08  9:11           ` Alexander Graf [this message]
2014-05-08  9:24             ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08 12:39     ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-08 12:44       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08  8:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: Add new target ppc64el-linux-user Doug Kwan
2014-05-08  8:41   ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08  8:46     ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08  8:56       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08  9:09         ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08 12:18   ` Andreas Färber
2014-05-08 12:28     ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-08 12:45       ` Alexander Graf
2014-05-08 15:57       ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08 14:41   ` Tom Musta
2014-05-08 15:19     ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08 15:25       ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-08 15:32         ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08 15:41           ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-08 15:51             ` Doug Kwan (關振德)
2014-05-08 15:56               ` Peter Maydell
2014-05-08 15:39         ` Tom Musta
2014-05-08 15:43           ` Peter Maydell

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