On Tuesday 22 April 2008 21:22:48 Avi Kivity wrote: > > 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. Yes, I discussed this with Hollis. But the virtio rings themselves already have this issue: we don't do any endian conversion on them and assume they're "our" endian in the guest. We may still regret not doing *everything* little-endian, but this doesn't make it worse. Thanks, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
