[PATCH 26/27] Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap

2009-10-30 Thread Alexander Graf
We currently use host endian long types to store information in the dirty bitmap. This works reasonably well on Little Endian targets, because the u32 after the first contains the next 32 bits. On Big Endian this breaks completely though, forcing us to be inventive here. So Ben suggested to

[PATCH 26/27] Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Graf
We currently use host endian long types to store information in the dirty bitmap. This works reasonably well on Little Endian targets, because the u32 after the first contains the next 32 bits. On Big Endian this breaks completely though, forcing us to be inventive here. So Ben suggested to

[PATCH 26/27] Use Little Endian for Dirty Bitmap

2009-10-21 Thread Alexander Graf
We currently use host endian long types to store information in the dirty bitmap. This works reasonably well on Little Endian targets, because the u32 after the first contains the next 32 bits. On Big Endian this breaks completely though, forcing us to be inventive here. So Ben suggested to