Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC PATCH] virtio: change config to guest endian.

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Rusty Russell wrote:
> [Christian, Hollis, how much is this ABI breakage going to hurt you?]
>
> A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
> some flaws in the API, in particular how easy it is to break big
> endian machines.
>
> The virtio config space was originally chosen to be little-endian,
> because we thought the config might be part of the PCI config space
> for virtio_pci.  It's actually a separate mmio region, so that
> argument holds little water; as only x86 is currently using the virtio
> mechanism, we can change this (but must do so now, before the
> impending s390 and ppc merges).
>
>   

This will probably annoy Hollis which has guests that can go both ways.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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