From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42981) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwUQV-0002p6-Ks for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:46:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwUQQ-0003oO-F6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:46:11 -0400 Received: from mail-lb0-f179.google.com ([209.85.217.179]:53425) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WwUQQ-0003oA-1n for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:46:06 -0400 Received: by mail-lb0-f179.google.com with SMTP id z11so452375lbi.24 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 03:46:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1402914604.7661.46.camel@pasglop> References: <1402914604.7661.46.camel@pasglop> From: Peter Maydell Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:45:45 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Endian control register List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net, Paul Mackerras , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Alexander Graf On 16 June 2014 11:30, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > So while trying to solve an issue we have with qemu/kvm and powerpc who > can be both LE and BE nowadays, we thought the ideal solution would be > to have a register in the emulated VGA to control the endian. > Any suggestion ? Comment ? Flame ? :-) My instinctive reaction is to ask if this exists in actual VGA hardware. If not, then it doesn't really seem like it belongs in our VGA device model... thanks -- PMM