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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Why does qemu not support qemu-system-armeb?
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Ljun <1275151072@qq.com>
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Il 15/06/2014 11:08, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 14 June 2014 14:49, Ljun <1275151072@qq.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,I am working on big endian for arm.I change the qemu
>> configure and create a qemu-system-armeb,but I want to know qemu whether
>> support armeb-softmmu.
>
> The answer to "why is there no qemu-system-armeb" is in two parts:
>
> (1) We don't support big-endian system emulation. There would need
> to be work done to implement this beyond just enabling an extra
> configuration.
>
> (2) If we did support big-endian system emulation, the right way
> to implement this would be to keep it in qemu-system-arm, and
> just have the CPU support the various control bits (SCTLR.B,
> SCTLR.EE, CPSR.E, etc).

Also, I have redone my setend patches to support SCTLR.B too, but I have 
yet to submit them.  I have no idea how to test them. :)

Paolo