Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] virtio_get_byteswap: function for endian-ambivalent targets using virtio.

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 10:52 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 August 2013 10:50, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I must be confused ... you mentioned in a previous discussion around
> > endianness that on some ARM cores at least, when changing the OS
> > endianness, you had to configure a different lane swapping in the bridge
> > to the the IO devices (AXI ?)
> 
> No, that's just the implementation -- the bit in the control
> register is effectively controlling whether there is byte lane
> swapping in the part of the CPU which is the data path between
> it and its bus to the outside world.

I find it amazing that an OS can touch that without hitting the
hypervisor :-) Anyway, ok, we do need to poll from virtio then, but we
probably need to cache as well, no ?

When do you sample it in qemu ?

Cheers,
Ben.