Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Apr 2015 17:55:08 +0200 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] vhost: support for cross endian guests |
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 02:09:29PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > Hi, > > This patchset allows vhost to be used with legacy virtio when guest and host > have a different endianness. > > Patches 1-6 remain the same as the previous post. Patch 7 was heavily changed > according to MST's comments.
This still doesn't actually work, right? tun and macvtap need new ioctls too ...
> --- > > Greg Kurz (7): > virtio: introduce virtio_is_little_endian() helper > tun: add tun_is_little_endian() helper > macvtap: introduce macvtap_is_little_endian() helper > vringh: introduce vringh_is_little_endian() helper > vhost: introduce vhost_is_little_endian() helper > virtio: add explicit big-endian support to memory accessors > vhost: feature to set the vring endianness > > > drivers/net/macvtap.c | 11 ++++++-- > drivers/net/tun.c | 11 ++++++-- > drivers/vhost/Kconfig | 10 +++++++ > drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/vhost/vhost.h | 34 +++++++++++++++++++---- > include/linux/virtio_byteorder.h | 24 ++++++++++------- > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 19 +++++++++---- > include/linux/vringh.h | 19 +++++++++---- > include/uapi/linux/vhost.h | 5 +++ > 9 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-) > > -- > Greg
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