On Tuesday 22 April 2008 09:31:35 Rusty Russell wrote: > 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. Hmm, why *don't* we just do everything LE, including the ring? -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
