On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: > On big endian hosts, the curses interface is unusable: the emulated > graphic card only displays garbage, while the monitor interface displays > nothing (or rather only spaces). > > The curses interface is waiting for data in native endianness, so > console_write_ch() should not do any conversion. The conversion should > be done when reading the video buffer in hw/vga.c. I supposed this > buffer is in little endian mode, though it's not impossible that the > data is actually in guest endianness. I currently have no big endian > guest to way (they all switch to graphic mode immediately).
First versions of OpenBIOS for Sparc64 used text console, I switched to VBE frame buffer later. I'm also puzzled by the uses of TARGET_WORDS_BIGENDIAN in hw/vga_template.h. I'd suppose that VGA (especially PCI devices) would be always little endian, so why the checks?
