Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 24/42] hw/isa: Declare device little or big endian

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 8/16/19 9:34 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> For each device declared with DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN, find the set of
> targets from the set of target/hw/*/device.o.
> 
> If the set of targets are all little or all big endian, re-declare
> the device endianness as DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN or DEVICE_BIG_ENDIAN
> respectively.
> 
> This *naive* deduction may result in genuinely native endian devices
> being incorrectly declared as little or big endian, but should not
> introduce regressions for current targets.
> 
> These devices should be re-declared as DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN if 1) it
> has a new target with an opposite endian or 2) someone informed knows
> better =)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/isa/vt82c686.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/isa/vt82c686.c b/hw/isa/vt82c686.c
> index 12c460590..adf65d3 100644
> --- a/hw/isa/vt82c686.c
> +++ b/hw/isa/vt82c686.c
> @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ static uint64_t superio_ioport_readb(void *opaque,
> hwaddr addr, unsigned size)
>  static const MemoryRegionOps superio_ops = {
>      .read = superio_ioport_readb,
>      .write = superio_ioport_writeb,
> -    .endianness = DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN,
> +    .endianness = DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN,

Being ioport, one is probably OK.

>      .impl = {
>          .min_access_size = 1,
>          .max_access_size = 1,
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
> ​
>