On 10/10/07, Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
>
> I have a late question :-)
>
> > There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can 
> > query
> > to get setup information from the host.
>
> After thinking about that for a while, is there a special reason the config
> field is defined as little endian? The only reason I can come up with, is to
> use virtio for cross platform emulators, lets say a ppc emulates an x86 system
> with virtio devices instead of real ones.
Not really.

Some platforms have multi-endianess capabilities. So you may want a
virtual machine running in a different endianess than the host
machine.

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