Re: [PATCH] qemu-options.hx: 9p: clarify -virtfs vs. -fsdev

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Dienstag, 31. März 2020 18:10:33 CEST Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > >> Huh. This prompted me to try this on s390, and it actually creates a
> > >> virtio-9p-pci device there as well, not a virtio-9p-ccw device. A bit
> > >> surprising; but I don't see 9p used much (if at all) on s390 anyway.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, "virtio-9p-pci" is currently hard coded in softmmu/vl.c [line
> > > 3352]:
> > > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/17083d6d1e0635371418c26b613a6fa68d392f
> > > 49/softmmu/vl.c#L3352> 
> > Should it be "virtio-9p" instead?  It's an alias for "virtio-9p-pci",
> > except for s390x, where it's an alias for "virtio-9p-ccw".
> 
> Seems like a reasonable change (although I'm not sure it matters too
> much).

It would be a minor change it seems, and yes there seems to be a virtio-9p-ccw 
implementation, however as long as nobody complains I leave it untouched for 
now. Especially since I have no idea about the s390 architecture, nor testing 
it.

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck