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Subject: [PATCH 04/14] legacy: make note on legacy VQ endian-ness normative


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 content.tex | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
index deee9e4..3e7dcfc 100644
--- a/content.tex
+++ b/content.tex
@@ -311,8 +311,11 @@ struct vring {
 
 \subsection{Legacy Interfaces: A Note on Virtqueue Endianness}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues / Legacy Interfaces: A Note on Virtqueue Endianness}
 
-Note that the endian of fields and in the virtqueue is the native
-endian of the guest, not little-endian as specified by this standard.
+Note that when using the legacy interface, transitional
+devices and drivers MUST use the native
+endian of the guest as the endian of fields and in the virtqueue.
+This is opposed to little-endian for non-legacy interface as
+specified by this standard.
 It is assumed that the host is already aware of the guest endian.
 
 \subsection{Message Framing}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues / Message Framing}
-- 
MST



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