On 12/31/14 20:25, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 31/12/2014 18:29, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 31 December 2014 at 16:23, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> $ arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M virt -machine accel=qtest \ >>> -qtest stdio -uuid 4600cb32-38ec-4b2f-8acb-81c6ea54f2d8 >>> writew 0x9020008 0x0200 >>> readl 0x9020000 >>> >>> The readl should return "OK 0x000000004600cb32". >> >> On BE ppc64 host I get: >> OK 0x0000000032cb0046 >> with or without Laszlo's patch. >> >> On LE x86-64 host I get >> OK 0x000000004600cb32 >> without the patch, and >> OK 0x0000000032cb0046 >> with it. >> >> So I think that the patch is good (in that it removes a host-endian >> dependency which we should not have) and your intuition for the >> correct result is possibly not so good :-) > > Indeed. I give up until at least the end of the holiday break.
I disagree with the wording "give up". I owe you a great deal of gratitude for the technical advice and the time & attention you've spent helping me with this. I hope I can reciprocate sometime. Laszlo