On 14/10/13 09:21, Rusty Russell wrote: > Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. > > OK, so I already have a patch which supports config space accessors. > I've posted the series below, and since you want it, I'll put it in > virtio-next after more testing and rebasing... Yes, that's definitely something I'd like to see being merged, as it would allow me to drop a significant chunk of changes. > But we won't be using feature bits for endianness, since we're defining > endian in the 1.0 spec (whether LE-everywhere or LE-for-mmio-and-PCI is > still debated). Since we need to guess for backwards compat anyway, > let's keep doing this until v1.0? When is 1.0 going to happen? When will actual implementation of drivers and devices show up in my favourite platform emulation? Having a grand plan for the future is great, but I need something working right now, or at least fairly soonish... And I need it to be backward compatible, as none of the above is going to show up overnight. > (Yeah, I made this mess with "native endian". I promise I have learnt > my lesson). Paracetamol bill coming you way... ;-) M. -- Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny... -- 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
