Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Support big endian domU's

[Dietmar Hahn <dietmar.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Isaku,

Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 15:34 schrieb Isaku Yamahata:
> If you have already (even imcomplete) patches, it would be good
> to initiate a discussion with the patch sending a mail of the
> subject [RFC][PATCH] on x86 list.
OK, I will prepare a patch.

>
> > I added a flag is_be to struct arch_domain. Is this ok, or may this
> > produce some problems?
>
> Although I'm not sure how the flag is used, I don't suppose that
> it would cause issues to introduce the new flag.
> I think that big endianess is per-vcpu issue, not per-domain,
My thought was, that the image is completely assembled and linked in big 
endianess. Therewidth it's a property of the domain.

> so that I don't think is_be is necessary. Could you elaborate on is_be?
I must more think on this.. If I better understand the Xen code maybe this 
flag is not needed.
Thanks.

Dietmar.

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