From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Glauber de Oliveira Costa" Subject: Re: [patch 32/43] lguest: Virtio interface Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:43:16 -0300 Message-ID: <5d6222a80710100643w7b02b3a7oa24a076b2bad4f52@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070926063618.956228976@rustcorp.com.au> <20070926063650.895058914@rustcorp.com.au> <200710101050.49012.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200710101050.49012.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Christian Borntraeger Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On 10/10/07, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > I have a late question :-) > > > There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can query > > to get setup information from the host. > > After thinking about that for a while, is there a special reason the config > field is defined as little endian? The only reason I can come up with, is to > use virtio for cross platform emulators, lets say a ppc emulates an x86 system > with virtio devices instead of real ones. Not really. Some platforms have multi-endianess capabilities. So you may want a virtual machine running in a different endianess than the host machine. -- Glauber de Oliveira Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."