Rusty Russell wrote: > [Christian, Hollis, how much is this ABI breakage going to hurt you?] > > A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed > some flaws in the API, in particular how easy it is to break big > endian machines. > > The virtio config space was originally chosen to be little-endian, > because we thought the config might be part of the PCI config space > for virtio_pci. It's actually a separate mmio region, so that > argument holds little water; as only x86 is currently using the virtio > mechanism, we can change this (but must do so now, before the > impending s390 and ppc merges). > >
This will probably annoy Hollis which has guests that can go both ways. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
