Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/5] Connect a PCIe host and graphics support to RISC-V

[Alistair]

On 10/10/2018 11:47 AM, Stephen  Bates wrote:
> >     Why do you need two networking options?
>
> I don't need the e1000 for networking. The e1000 option is there to test the 
> PCIe since it implements a PCIe model of the e1000 NIC. Basically it's another 
> test path for your PCIe patches and was used for testing when PCIe support to 
> the arm virt model [1].
>      
> >     Strange. Is there any reason you need to use the e1000? The VirtIO
> >     networking device works for me.
>      
> As per above. The e1000 is there to test PCIe not networking.

Awe. My mistake. I thought that the VirtIO networking device was a PCIe 
device for some reason.

Alistair

> Stephen
>      
> [1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/4ab29b8214cc4b54e0c1a8270b610a340311470e