On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 10:39:09 +0100 Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 7 October 2016 at 00:55, David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote: > > It is an improvement. But I still think if we're relying on the > > ill-defined "target endianness" we're already doing something wrong. > > Target endianness is not ill-defined. It's a clear and constant > property of the bus the CPU is plugged into. It is a bit weird > to rely on it in the test code, which is why only the virtio > tests currently use qtest_big_endian(). > And to discourage anyone to use it in a test program, maybe it could even be renamed virtio_big_endian() and put in a virtio specific header file ? This is how it is done in QEMU. > thanks > -- PMM Cheers. -- Greg