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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Daniel Henrique Barboza" <danielhb413@gmail.com>,
	"BALATON Zoltan" <balaton@eik.bme.hu>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Alistair Francis" <alistair@alistair23.me>,
	"David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	"Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>, "Greg Kurz" <groug@kaod.org>,
	qemu-arm@nongnu.org,
	"Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH-for-8.0 1/3] hw/ppc: Replace tswap32() by const_le32()
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 10:14:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1f4b5a6-0a8a-5a04-8ab6-f3f08b9d36aa@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d73fe725-565e-7fcb-e7d3-846189459545@linaro.org>

On 12/13/22 10:10, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 13/12/22 17:00, Richard Henderson wrote:
>> On 12/13/22 06:52, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> Assuming the developers of commits 2c50e26efd ("powerpc: Add
>>> a virtex5 ml507 refdesign board") and 4b387f9ee1 ("ppc: Add
>>> aCube Sam460ex board") were testing on a little-endian setup,
>>> they meant to use const_le32() instead of tswap32() here,
>>> since tswap32() depends on the host endianness.
>>
>> tswap depends on target endianness.
> 
> Yes, it depends on both host/target endianness. What I meant
> is we shouldn't have system code depending on host endianness.

It compares host vs target endianness, to determine if a swap is needed.  But the real 
dependency is target endianness.


r~


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-13 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-13 12:52 [RFC PATCH-for-8.0 0/3] hw/ppc: Remove tswap() calls Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-12-13 12:52 ` [RFC PATCH-for-8.0 1/3] hw/ppc: Replace tswap32() by const_le32() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-12-13 16:00   ` Richard Henderson
2022-12-13 16:10     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-12-13 16:14       ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2022-12-13 16:21         ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-13 16:27           ` Richard Henderson
2022-12-13 16:53             ` Cédric Le Goater
2022-12-13 17:23               ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-13 17:51                 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2022-12-13 18:09                 ` BALATON Zoltan
2022-12-13 21:37                   ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-13 18:13                 ` Cédric Le Goater
2023-05-17 10:51                   ` Thomas Huth
2022-12-13 12:52 ` [RFC PATCH-for-8.0 2/3] hw/ppc/spapr: Replace tswap64(HPTE) by cpu_to_be64(HPTE) Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-12-13 13:51   ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-16 19:10     ` Daniel Henrique Barboza
2022-12-16 21:39       ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-19  6:31         ` David Gibson
2022-12-19 10:39           ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-21  1:16             ` David Gibson
2022-12-21 12:33               ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-21 16:03                 ` Cédric Le Goater
2022-12-21 22:15                   ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-22  1:56                     ` David Gibson
2022-12-13 12:52 ` [RFC PATCH-for-8.0 3/3] hw/net/xilinx_ethlite: Replace tswap32() by be32_to_cpu() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-12-13 13:53   ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-13 13:54     ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2022-12-13 14:18       ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-13 14:23         ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2022-12-13 15:22           ` Peter Maydell
2022-12-13 15:41             ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2024-04-22 12:46     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2022-12-13 16:56 ` [RFC PATCH-for-8.0 0/3] hw/ppc: Remove tswap() calls Cédric Le Goater

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