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Re: qemu-user viability (was Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 5983-1] qemu security update)



Hi Rob,

#off-topic

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 at 20:40, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> Anyway, this works fine on little endian, but the qemu-system-sh4eb
> build has something hinky in the ethernet, I haven't tackled it myself
> because I don't know whether the device emulation or the driver is
> what's missing an endian swap. (I don't want to fix it the "wrong way",

That is using sh_eth, right?

Last time I tried booting a big-endian ARM kernel on R-Car M2-W,
the Linux kernel booted fine, except for Ethernet.  So sh_eth is definitely
not big-endian clean.

[*] I didn't have a big-endian userspace.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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