On Sun, 2014-03-23 at 12:14 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 23 March 2014 09:49, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > At this point I'm confused. > > If iasl compiler is broken, we should detect and fix that. > > It might be ok to just detect endian-ness as a quick work-around. > > BTW configure already has code to detect endian-ness: > > if test "$bigendian" = "yes" ; then > > echo "HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN=y" >> $config_host_mak > > fi > > That's the endianness of the machine we're compiling QEMU > for, not the endianness of the machine we're compiling QEMU > on. If for instance you're on x86_64 cross-compiling for PPC > then HOST_WORDS_BIGENDIAN is true, but the iasl you use > in the build process will be running on a little endian machine.
Hi Peter, are you sure about this? I saw the 'target_bigendian' that does what you described above. $bigendian is the result of a little C program that checks *host's* endian-ness. Of course I might have missed something. By the way, considering what Paolo said that the iasl compiler does work for BE machines (the dis-assembler has the problem), leads me to see this issue as the test's problem. So I am going to leave the 'configure' with no modifications and check inside the test itself that the expected files can be disassembled. Thanks, Marcel > > thanks > -- PMM
