On Thursday 08 November 2007 04:30:50 Anthony Liguori wrote: > I would prefer that the virtio API not expose a little endian standard. > I'm currently converting config->get() ops to ioreadXX depending on the > size which already does the endianness conversion for me so this just > messes things up. I think it's better to let the backend deal with > endianness since it's trivial to handle for both the PCI backend and the > lguest backend (lguest doesn't need to do any endianness conversion). -ETOOMUCHMAGIC. We should either expose all the XX interfaces (but this isn't a high-speed interface, so let's not) or not "sometimes" convert endianness. Getting surprises because a field happens to be packed into 4 bytes is counter-intuitive. Since your most trivial implementation is to do a byte at a time, I don't think you have a good argument on that basis either. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
