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

[Ashok Kumar <ashoks@broadcom.com>]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 06:10:15PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
Hi,

> On 6 January 2016 at 14:47, Ashok Kumar <ashoks@broadcom.com> wrote:
> > virtio model is used for default case.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ashok Kumar <ashoks@broadcom.com>
> 
> Could you explain why you think this needs to be done?
Yes, for -net. Honestly, I didn't know this is obsolete and the
only syntax I knew for networking. 

> Virtio networking works OK for me...
I tried the new syntax now and it is working fine.

> 
> I guess from the patch that this is adding support for
> the legacy '-net' way of configuring networking, but do
> we need that if we never supported it in the first place?
> (If virt is the only PCI machine which doesn't support
> -net syntax that would probably be a strong argument for
> supporting it.)
Fine with me. But there are some documentation for e.g [1] which says "-net" is
still supported.

[1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Networking#Compatibility

Thanks,
Ashok
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
>