Re: [Qemu-ppc] KVM and variable-endianness guest CPUs

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On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 23:49 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 
> Er, what? If we make the array be guest's current order
> then by definition userspace has to look at the guest's
> current endianness. I agree that would be bad. Either
> of the two current proposals (host kernel order; guest
> CPU's native/natural/default-byte-order) avoid it, though.

No, this has nothing to do with the guest endianness, and
all to do about the (hopefully) byte-address invariant bus we have
on the processor.

Anyway, the existing crap is ABI so I suspect we have to stick with it,
just maybe document it better.

Ben.


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