Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] hw/arm: Add 'virt' platform

[Peter Maydell]

On 15 October 2013 15:58, Tom Sutcliffe <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thumbs up from me testing on Arndale. My only issue is that virt and 
> vexpress-a15 add virtio-mmio devices in the opposite order to each other, for 
> the same set of -device command line arguments. It would avoid future 
> headaches if we could have these behave the same. My preference would be for 
> the virt behaviour, as the -device order matches the order in which the guest 
> Linux kernel adds them to /dev (for virtio-blk-devices at least).

Oh yes, I'd forgotten you mentioned that. Did anybody ever
track down *why* the kernel is reading the device tree
backwards?

(PS: I'd appreciate it if you didn't drop the qemu-devel cc.)

thanks
-- PMM