Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] to run on IA64

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:24:19PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote: > Hi, > > This patch intends to run libvirt 0.2.0 on IA64. > > Signed-off-by: Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia(a)jp.fujitsu.com&gt; This patch looks fine to me - I assume its just about silencing warnings from ever stricter GCC compiles. > Just one question, is there any plan to support big/little > endian for libvirt? (related to network) The current protocol used in QEMU backend is 'native' endianness, since it is only accessible over UNIX sockets & thus doesn't need to worry about endianness mismatch. When we add off-host remote management we'll need to ensure that all the data types are fixed sizes (eg int32_t instead of int) and that we pick a fixed byteorder. Rich Jones' work is using SunRPC as the network transport which, IIRC, mandates fixed sizes, and will always use network byte order to ensure compatabilty across archs. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|