On 10/06/2016 05:36 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 06/10/2016 16:11, Greg Kurz wrote: >> FWIW, Cedric had another proposal which apparently went unnoticed: >> >> <fc24ad74-da26-a713-9312-a2c2d07fb...@kaod.org> >> >> The idea is to add an optional endianness argument to the read*/write* >> commands in the qtest protocol: >> - libqtest then provides explicit _le and _be APIs >> - no extra byteswap is performed on the test program side: qtest >> actually handles that and does exactly 1 or 0 byteswap. >> - it does not use memread/memwrite >> - the current 'guest native' API where qtest tswaps is preserved >> > > No, this is a worse idea, because the right place to do the swap is in > the "program" (libqtest) not in the "CPU" (QEMU).
So the current patch, minus the typos, seems to be a "better" solution. Thanks, C.
