Hi. I was looking at adding ppc64be to the set of machines I do build tests on before merging patches, but right now "make check" fails on this host.
ERROR:/home/pm215/qemu/tests/ide-test.c:721:cdrom_pio_impl: assertion failed ((data) & (DRQ | DRDY) == (DRQ | DRDY)): (0x00000040 == 0x00000048) GTester: last random seed: R02S58b8c55d2bcc2ad0ddd605d5ce8483ee ** ERROR:/home/pm215/qemu/tests/ide-test.c:721:cdrom_pio_impl: assertion failed ((data) & (DRQ | DRDY) == (DRQ | DRDY)): (0x00000040 == 0x00000048) GTester: last random seed: R02S3bf67d6406a1f4ea5d8ca81bff345065 ** ERROR:/home/pm215/qemu/tests/ide-test.c:788:test_cdrom_dma: assertion failed (memcmp(pattern, rx, len) == 0): (1 == 0) GTester: last random seed: R02S2732ddb1755a1620a021eb6c59bd6281 The obvious guess is that something in the IDE code or its test harness has an accidental little-endian dependency. Would anybody care to investigate? :-) thanks -- PMM