Re: [PATCH v4 13/17] hw/i386/pc: support '-nic' for xen-net-device

[Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com>]

On 06/11/2023 14:35, David Woodhouse wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> 
> The default NIC creation seems a bit hackish to me. I don't understand
> why each platform has to call pci_nic_init_nofail() from a point in the
> code where it actually has a pointer to the PCI bus, and then we have
> the special cases for things like ne2k_isa.
> 
> If qmp_device_add() can *find* the appropriate bus and instantiate
> the device on it, why can't we just do that from generic code for
> creating the default NICs too?
> 
> But that isn't a yak I want to shave today. Add a xenbus field to the
> PCMachineState so that it can make its way from pc_basic_device_init()
> to pc_nic_init() and be handled as a special case like ne2k_isa is.
> 
> Now we can launch emulated Xen guests with '-nic user'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
> ---
>   hw/i386/pc.c             | 11 ++++++++---
>   hw/i386/pc_piix.c        |  2 +-
>   hw/i386/pc_q35.c         |  2 +-
>   hw/xen/xen-bus.c         |  4 +++-
>   include/hw/i386/pc.h     |  4 +++-
>   include/hw/xen/xen-bus.h |  2 +-
>   6 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>