On 7 May 2014 10:37, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > >> Am 07.05.2014 um 11:26 schrieb Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>: >> >>> On 7 May 2014 10:09, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: >>> I don't think we should overengineer hacks for legacy virtio. >> >> Agreed. So what's our final conclusion: virtio endianness >> is the endianness of the guest kernel at the point where >> it triggers a reset of the virtio device, yes? > > The interrupt endianness for book3s PPC. Since that's an arch > specific thing I think we should just make the determination > mechanism arch dependent and list it in the spec. > > Booke for example would be vastly different since there is no > global LE flag - it's a bit in the TLB entries.
Sure, but I think we should also state the general principle we're aiming to implement with the arch specific detail, so that people figuring out what a new arch should do have a guide to follow. thanks -- PMM
