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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/42] Invert Endian bit in SPARCv9 MMU TTE
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 13:02:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA-nihW1nuMOL-XCR_QxUXSXji=noe4eDNPHxkib4-_a6A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1565955445398.83897@bt.com>
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 at 12:37, <tony.nguyen@bt.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Phillippe,
>
> On 8/16/19 7:58 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >On 8/16/19 8:28 AM, tony.nguyen@bt.com wrote:
> >> For each device declared with DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN, find the set of
> >> targets from the set of target/hw/*/device.o.
> >>
> >> If the set of targets are all little or all big endian, re-declare
> >> the device endianness as DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN or DEVICE_BIG_ENDIAN
> >> respectively.
> >
> >If only little endian targets use a device, that doesn't mean the device
> >is designed in little endian...
> >
> >Then if a big endian target plan to use this device, it will require
> >more work and you might have introduced regressions...
> >
> >I'm not sure this is a safe move.
> >
> >> This *naive* deduction may result in genuinely native endian devices
> >> being incorrectly declared as little or big endian, but should not
> >> introduce regressions for current targets.
> >
>
> Roger. Evidently too naive. TBH, most devices I've never heard of...
OTOH it's worth noting that it's quite likely that most of
the implementations of these DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN devices
picked it in an equally naive way, by just copying some other
device's code...
thanks
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-16 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-16 6:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/42] Invert Endian bit in SPARCv9 MMU TTE tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 01/42] configure: Define TARGET_ALIGNED_ONLY tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 02/42] tcg: TCGMemOp is now accelerator independent MemOp tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 03/42] memory: Introduce size_memop tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 04/42] target/mips: Access MemoryRegion with MemOp tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 05/42] hw/s390x: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 06/42] hw/intc/armv7m_nic: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 07/42] hw/virtio: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 08/42] hw/vfio: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 09/42] exec: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 10/42] cputlb: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 11/42] memory: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-18 21:44 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-08-16 7:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 12/42] hw/s390x: Hard code size with MO_{8|16|32|64} tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 13/42] target/mips: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 14/42] exec: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:31 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 15/42] hw/audio: Declare device little or big endian tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 16/42] hw/block: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 17/42] hw/char: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 18/42] hw/display: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 19/42] hw/dma: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 20/42] hw/gpio: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 21/42] hw/i2c: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 22/42] hw/input: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 23/42] hw/intc: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 24/42] hw/isa: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 10:01 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-08-16 7:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 25/42] hw/misc: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 10:04 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-08-19 18:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-16 7:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 26/42] hw/net: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 27/42] hw/pci-host: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 10:06 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-08-16 7:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 28/42] hw/sd: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 29/42] hw/ssi: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 30/42] hw/timer: " tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 31/42] build: Correct non-common common-obj-* to obj-* tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 32/42] exec: Map device_endian onto MemOp tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 33/42] exec: Replace device_endian with MemOp tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 10:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [qemu-s390x] " Thomas Huth
2019-08-19 18:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-19 18:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-08-19 21:01 ` Richard Henderson
2019-08-20 3:11 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2019-08-16 7:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 34/42] exec: Delete device_endian tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 35/42] exec: Delete DEVICE_HOST_ENDIAN tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 36/42] memory: Access MemoryRegion with endianness tony.nguyen
2019-08-18 12:22 ` Richard Henderson
2019-08-16 7:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 37/42] cputlb: Replace size and endian operands for MemOp tony.nguyen
2019-08-18 12:37 ` Richard Henderson
2019-08-16 7:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 38/42] memory: Single byte swap along the I/O path tony.nguyen
2019-08-18 12:46 ` Richard Henderson
2019-08-16 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 39/42] cpu: TLB_FLAGS_MASK bit to force memory slow path tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 40/42] cputlb: Byte swap memory transaction attribute tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 41/42] target/sparc: Add TLB entry with attributes tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 42/42] target/sparc: sun4u Invert Endian TTE bit tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 8:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 33/42] exec: Replace device_endian with MemOp tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 9:33 ` tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 9:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/42] Invert Endian bit in SPARCv9 MMU TTE Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-08-16 11:37 ` tony.nguyen
2019-08-16 12:02 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2019-08-16 11:43 ` David Gibson
2019-08-18 9:13 ` Richard Henderson
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