[Libvir] big-endian support for libvirt - introduce GUEST_HANDLE infrastructure ?

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:11:38PM +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
[...]
>
>   yes the only potential problem would be with other architectures where
> __BIG_ENDIAN__ is defined and where the relative size of pointers and long
> would be different.
>   
We can change it to something more generic the moment we recognize other 
affected architectures.
Or in a free minute ;-)
[...]
>   
>> Since it is no longer a macro we could pre-calculate the sizes anyway, 
>> but the way it is now says clearly "64bit size - used size" for the 
>> padding and I like that kind of readability.
>>     
>
>   Yes this makes for very long line, but it's really not a concern.
> I'm tempted to apply that patch after a day of grace delay to give people
> a chance to voice in !
>
>    thanks a lot ! Does this fix all the libvirt proper platform issues
> (i.e. independantly of possible xen specific ones) ?
>   
Yes it fixes them as far as they are currently known to me.
As I wrote before I had already a temporary workaround in the kernel, so 
the libvirt on xenppc status I posted a few mails before is valid for 
the patched libvirt&kernel scenario.
> Daniel
>   

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