[0/13] Patch series description
André Hentschel
nerv at dawncrow.de
Sat Feb 23 06:10:38 CST 2013
Am 22.02.2013 15:09, schrieb Saulius Krasuckas:
> * On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, André Hentschel wrote:
>> Am 21.02.2013 21:31, schrieb Saulius Krasuckas:
>>>
>>> because I've got new(er) Sparc machine.
>>
>> You know that you most likely won't ever be able to run x86 apps on that
>> machine, only winelib. Do you need that for something?
>
> Yes, I am aware of endianess issue found by Darwine people when
> integrating it with Qemu to run x86/PE binaries on PowerPC:
> http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
>
> It is said byteswapping isn't worth trouble but if Rosetta did it (only in
> reverse direction) isn't this issue only about developers work time and
> not about performance?
>
> Then it seems Sparc V9 can switch to little endian to access data.
>
>> So where do we go from here?
>
> Right to the binary translation (or even dynamic recompilation), I guess.
>
> S.
>
I won't do that, and i guess there's not much interest out there for someone else to do it, so have fun :)
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Best Regards, André Hentschel
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