2015-11-01 11:00, Marcel Apfelbaum: > On 10/30/2015 07:48 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2015-10-18 10:04, Michael S. Tsirkin: > >> This will require more work then as 1.0 is a different > >> endian-ness from 0.9. It's up to you guys to decide > >> whether correct BE support is now a requirement for all > >> new dpdk code. Let us know. > > > I'm not sure to understand. > > Yes DPDK must work on big endian platforms. > > Does this patch prevent from using virtio 0.9 with big endian? > > No, if it worked until now, will continue to work. (And the other way around) > > However, if virtio 1.0 is supported by both QEMU and vhost-user, > virtio 1.0 has different endianess requirements than prev virtio,
OK so that's an acceptable workaround: big endian platforms must use virtio 0.9. In order to have a big endian support of virtio 1.0, is it sufficient to convert data? Is it something we want regarding performance?
