Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] update cpumask handling for cpu pools in libxc and python

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Juergen Gross writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Patch] update cpumask handling for 
cpu pools in libxc and python"):
> The hypervisor returns a cpumask based on bytes, the tools use uint64-based
> cpumasks. In practice this is equivalent as long as multiple of 8 bytes are
> written by the hypervisor and the system is running little endian.

Surely we don't intend to tie our code permanently to little-endian
cpus ?  I don't know whether we have supported any big-endian
architectures in the past but I don't think we should rule it out
where it's not necessary to do so.

Ian.

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