Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio-spec: Define virtio-mmio registers as LE | From | Pawel Moll <> | Date | Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:50:05 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2013-03-01 at 10:41 +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On 14/02/13 10:54, Pawel Moll wrote: > > 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> > > Shouldn't we exclude the config space? PCI defines it as guest-endian, > and the above tends to indicate that it should be LE with MMIO.
The spec says: "Device-specific configuration space starts at an offset 0x100 and is accessed with byte alignment. Its meaning and size depends on the device and the driver."
I would hope that "accessed with byte alignment" is enough of a clue in this subject, but if you think otherwise I can add a sentence stating this explicitly.
Having said that, Rusty was contemplating enforcing LE config space in the new PCI layout...
Paweł
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