On 2 March 2016 at 06:56, Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaitepe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Support ARM big-endian ELF files in system-mode emulation. When loading > an elf, determine the endianness mode expected by the elf, and set the > relevant CPU state accordingly. > > With this, big-endian modes are now fully supported via system-mode LE, > so there is no need to restrict the elf loading to the TARGET > endianness so the ifdeffery on TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN goes away. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.pe...@gmail.com> > ---
> + /* In BE32, the CPU has a different view of the per-byte > + * address map than the rest of the system. BE32 elfs are > + * organised such that they can be programmed through the > + * CPUs per-word byte-reversed view of the world. QEMU "CPU's". > + * however loads elfs independently of the CPU. So tell > + * the elf loader to byte reverse the data for us. > + */ Otherwise Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> thanks -- PMM
