Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 May 2015 14:59:00 +1000 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 6/8] virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors |
| |
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:26:24PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > The current memory accessors logic is: > - little endian if little_endian > - native endian (i.e. no byteswap) if !little_endian > > If we want to fully support cross-endian vhost, we also need to be > able to convert to big endian. > > Instead of changing the little_endian argument to some 3-value enum, this > patch changes the logic to: > - little endian if little_endian > - big endian if !little_endian > > The native endian case is handled by all users with a trivial helper. This > patch doesn't change any functionality, nor it does add overhead. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
-- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |