Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] spapr: add ibmveth to the supported network adapters list

[Alexander Graf]

Am 01.11.2013 um 03:52 schrieb Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>:

> On 10/28/2013 05:03 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> 
>> On 10.10.2013, at 20:09, Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> The problem is that "-net nic,model=?" does not print "ibmveth" in
>>> the list while it is actually supported.
>>> 
>>> Most of the QEMU emulated network devices are PCI but "ibmveth"
>>> (a.k.a. spapr-vlan) is not. However with "-net nic,model=?", QEMU prints
>>> only PCI devices in the list, even if it does not say that the list is
>>> all about PCI devices.
>>> 
>>> This adds "?"/"help" handling in spapr.c and adds "ibmveth" in the beginning
>>> of the list.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> This is an RFC patch.
>>> 
>>> The other solutions could be:
>>> 1. add "ibmveth" into pci_nic_models[] in hw/pci/pci.c but this would not
>>> be correct as "ibmveth" is not PCI and it must appear only on pseries 
>>> machine.
>>> 
>>> 2. implemement short version of qdev_print_category_devices() and call it
>>> with DEVICE_CATEGORY_NETWORK but that would print more devices than
>>> pci_nic_init_nofail() can handle (vmxnet3, usb-bt-dongle).
>>> 
>>> 3. fix qemu_check_nic_model() to specifically say that this is a list of
>>> PCI devices and there might be some other devices which "-net nic,model+"
>>> supports but there are not PCI but that could break compatibility (some
>>> management software may rely on this exact string).
>>> 
>>> 4. Reject the patch and just say that people must stop using "-net". Ok for 
>>> me :)
>>> 
>>> Since "-net" is kind of obsolete interface and does not seem to be extended 
>>> ever,
>>> the proposed patch does not look too ugly, does not it?
>>> ---
>>> hw/ppc/spapr.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>>> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>>> index c0613e4..45ed3da 100644
>>> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>>> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
>>> @@ -1276,6 +1276,21 @@ static void ppc_spapr_init(QEMUMachineInitArgs *args)
>>> 
>>>        if (strcmp(nd->model, "ibmveth") == 0) {
>>>            spapr_vlan_create(spapr->vio_bus, nd);
>>> +        } else if (is_help_option(nd->model)) {
>>> +            static const char * const nic_models[] = {
>>> +                "ibmveth",
>>> +                "ne2k_pci",
>>> +                "i82551",
>>> +                "i82557b",
>>> +                "i82559er",
>>> +                "rtl8139",
>>> +                "e1000",
>>> +                "pcnet",
>>> +                "virtio",
>>> +                NULL
>>> +            };
>> 
>> I don't like the idea of duplicating that list.
> 
> Neither do I :) But the list itself already looks quite ugly.
> 
>> Basically the list of supported -net models is incorrect today even on
>> x86 where you can say -net nic,model=ne2k_isa. It really is only a list
>> of PCI devices.
> 
> 
>> I can think of a number of convoluted ways to fix this up, but I think
>> that ignoring fully accuracy of the output of -net model=? is the most
>> straight forward thing to do.
> 
> Does any of your "convoluted" ways include adding a new category
> (DEVICE_CATEGORY_NETWORK_LEGACY?) into enum DeviceCategory, adding devices
> from the list above and fixing qemu_show_nic_models() to show what is in
> the category?

Most of them consist of a full redesign of the way -net works :).

> 
> Or "-net" interface is "deprecated" and we do not want even touch it?

I don't think we should deprecate it. It's easier to use than anything else. 
Ahci adoption heavily suffered from not being enabled in -drive - I don't want 
that again here.

Alex

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> Alexey