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On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 09:43:09AM +0200, Andriy Berestovskyy wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Just a minor note: ARM is bi-endian in fact. For instance, there are
> both endians tool chains available on Linaro.
> 
> Andriy

Yea. BE support is around for legacy stuff.  So I'm not sure it's all
that important to support that mode in NFV/DPDK applications.

If it becomes important, for virtio 0.9 you won't be able to
support transparently in dpdk anyway - you'll need a new
vhost-user message to get the endian-ness of the guest,
and do byteswaps conditionally, adding overhead.

Maybe going virtio 1 only is the sane thing to do for these
applications.

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MST