On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > On 10/10/07, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > After thinking about that for a while, is there a special reason the config > > field is defined as little endian? The only reason I can come up with, is to > > use virtio for cross platform emulators, lets say a ppc emulates an x86 system > > with virtio devices instead of real ones. > > Not really. > > Some platforms have multi-endianess capabilities. So you may want a > virtual machine running in a different endianess than the host > machine. Since virtio is a rather generic concept, there are other things you might want to do with them, like routing virtio data over the network to a machine with different endianess, or actually building hardware that implements some sort of virtio compatible interface. Arnd <>< _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
