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From: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/27] tools/libxl: Infrastructure for
 reading a libxl migration v2 stream
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:49:13 +0800
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On 06/17/2015 06:15 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-17 at 11:09 +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
>>> +    if (hdr->options & RESTORE_OPT_BIG_ENDIAN) {
>>> +        ret = ERROR_FAIL;
>>> +        LOG(ERROR, "Unable to handle big endian streams");
>>> +        goto err;
>>
>> I think it is better to check if the host is big endian or not.
> 
> It's not, there are no big endian ports of Xen today. I think encoding
> that here is fine.

IIRC, arm supports big endian. Do we only use arm+little endian? If so,
it is OK now.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

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