On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 03:36:08PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > This small patch series adds just enough kernel infrastructure and > fixes to allow a BE guest to use virtio-mmio on a LE host, provided > that the host actually supports such madness. > > This has been tested on arm64, with some fixes to KVM and a set of > changes to kvmtool, both which I am posting separately. > > A branch containing all the relevant changes is at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms.git kvm-arm64/be-on-le-3.12-rc4 > > Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@xxxxxxx> We are changing the spec to make everything LE instead of the native endian. I think that'll fix the issue in a cleaner way. > Marc Zyngier (3): > virtio: let the guest report its endianess if advertized by the host > virtio: mmio: fix signature checking for BE guests > virtio: mmio: access configuration space as little-endian > > drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 6 +-- > drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 4 +- > drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c | 8 +++- > drivers/net/caif/caif_virtio.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +- > drivers/remoteproc/remoteproc_virtio.c | 8 +++- > drivers/s390/kvm/kvm_virtio.c | 8 +++- > drivers/s390/kvm/virtio_ccw.c | 9 +++- > drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 4 +- > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 8 ++-- > drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c | 8 +++- > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 8 ++++ > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 19 ++++---- > include/uapi/linux/virtio_ring.h | 8 ++++ > net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 4 +- > 16 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.8.2.3 > -- 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
