Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio-spec: Define virtio-mmio registers as LE | Date | Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:27:47 +1030 |
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Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com> writes: > To solve the never-ending confusions between hosts and guests > of different endianess, define all virtio-mmio registers as LE. > > This change should be safe at this stage, because no known > working mixed-endian system exists so there is virtually no > risk of breaking compatibility. > > Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>
Applied. We could also move device configuration space to LE, if we wanted. It's a bigger change to the Linux implementation, since we now need accessors for each width, but it might be a good idea. OTOH, getting such a change into qemu might be harder...
Cheers, Rusty.
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