Hi, This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host have a different endianness. Patch 7 got rewritten according to Cornelia's and Michael's comments. I have also introduced patch 8 that brings BE vnet headers support to tun/macvtap. This series is enough to have vhost_net working flawlessly. I could succesfully reboot guests from ppc64 to ppc64le and vice-versa on ppc64 and ppc64le hosts. --- Greg Kurz (8): virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian() helper vringh: introduce vringh_is_little_endian() helper vhost: introduce vhost_is_little_endian() helper virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors vhost: feature to set the vring endianness macvtap/tun: add VNET_BE flag drivers/net/Kconfig | 12 ++++++ drivers/net/macvtap.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/tun.c | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 10 +++++ drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 25 ++++++++++--- include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h | 24 +++++++----- include/linux/virtio_config.h | 19 +++++++--- include/linux/vringh.h | 19 +++++++--- include/uapi/linux/if_tun.h | 2 + include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 9 +++++ 11 files changed, 303 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) -- Greg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html