On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 05:42:43PM +0000, Blue Swirl wrote: > 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.
Do you know if it is easy to switch back to text console? That would be an easy way to check what is correct. > 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? > I also don't explain them. I have tried to remove them, and powerpc and sparc target still seems to work. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
