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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: qemu-trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	qemu-stable <qemu-stable@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tci: Fix qemu-alpha on 32 bit hosts (wrong assertions)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 13:07:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52321F0F.4080903@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52320EB5.9030208@weilnetz.de>

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 <rth@twiddle.net>


r~



  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-12 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-12 18:17 [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] tci: Fix qemu-alpha on 32 bit hosts (wrong assertions) Stefan Weil
2013-09-12 18:39 ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Richard Henderson
2013-09-12 18:57   ` Stefan Weil
2013-09-12 20:07     ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2013-09-14  9:02 ` [Qemu-trivial] " Michael Tokarev

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