On Wednesday 10 October 2007 18:50:48 Christian Borntraeger 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. > > Do you have other reasons for a fixed endianess?
Other people came up with really good reasons, but in fact it was because PCI is little-endian. If someone found a compelling counter-argument, I'd change it. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
