Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v12 3/4] hw/arm/virt: add dynamic sysbus device support

[Alexander Graf]

On 04/27/2015 03:56 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 27 April 2015 at 14:41, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Peter, would you have a hard time if we just get rid of VIRT_MMIO completely
> > and allow users to create the mmio-virtio bridges using -device for -M
> > virt-2.4 and above?
> I would strongly prefer not -- it breaks existing working command
> lines. I agree that we are going to want to move to virtio-pci
> and virtio-mmio is just legacy, but retaining legacy is what makes
> QEMU not kvmtool, right? :-)

Heh ;). Oh well, I guess the series is ready to go in then. I'd still 
like to see the virtio-mmio bridge get enabled for dynamic platform bus 
support soon, so that we can eventually phase out the preallocated region.


Alex