Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm/virt: Initialize NICs configured in PCI bus

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 January 2016 at 02:54, Jason Wang <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/07/2016 11:21 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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>> On 07/01/2016 15:47, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> I think my current inclination is to say that virt should
>>> support -net, because I would prefer to avoid having yet
>>> another speedbump in the path of people trying to move to
>>> using KVM-on-ARM based on their previous experience with
>>> KVM-on-x86.

>> I agree.
>
> +1

OK, we seem to have a consensus. I'm going to apply this patch
to target-arm.next, with an expanded commit message:

    hw/arm/virt: Support legacy -nic command line syntax

    Support the legacy -nic syntax for creating PCI network devices
    as well as the new-style -device options. This makes life easier
    for people moving from x86 KVM virtualization to ARM KVM virtualization
    and expecting their network configuration options to work the same
    way for both setups.

    We use "virtio" as the default NIC model if the user doesn't specify one.

thanks
-- PMM