NICs defined with -net nic are for board initialization to wire up.
Board code examines nd_table[] to find them, and creates devices with
their qdev NIC properties set accordingly.
Except "allwinner-a10" goes on a fishing expedition for NIC
configuration instead of exposing the usual NIC properties for board
code to set: it uses nd_table[0] in its instance_init() method.
Picking up the first -net nic option's configuration that way works
when the device is created by board code. But it's inappropriate for
-device and device_add. Not only is it inconsistent with how the
other block device models work (they get their configuration from
properties "mac", "vlan", "netdev"), it breaks when nd_table[0] has
been picked up by the board or a previous -device / device_add
already.
Example:
$ qemu-system-arm -S -M cubieboard -device allwinner-a10
qemu-system-arm: -device allwinner-a10: Property 'allwinner-emac.netdev' can't take value 'hub0port0', it's in use
Aborted (core dumped)
It also breaks in other entertaining ways:
$ qemu-system-arm -M highbank -device allwinner-a10
qemu-system-arm: -device allwinner-a10: Unsupported NIC model: xgmac
$ qemu-system-arm -M highbank -net nic,model=allwinner-emac -device allwinner-a10
qemu-system-arm: Unsupported NIC model: allwinner-emac
Mark the mistake with a FIXME comment.
Cc: Li Guang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Character devices defined with -serial and -parallel are for board
initialization to wire up. Board code examines serial_hds[] and
parallel_hds[] to find them, and creates devices with their qdev
chardev properties set accordingly.
Except a few devices go on a fishing expedition for a suitable backend
instead of exposing a chardev property for board code to set: they use
serial_hds[] (often via qemu_char_get_next_serial()) or parallel_hds[]
in their realize() or init() method to connect to a backend.
Picking up backends that way works when the devices are created by
board code. But it's inappropriate for -device or device_add. Not
only is it inconsistent with how the other characrer device models
work (they connect to a backend explicitly identified by a "chardev"
property), it breaks when the backend has been picked up by the board
or a previous -device / device_add already.
Example:
$ qemu-system-ppc64 -M bamboo -S -device i82378 -device pc87312 -device pc87312
qemu-system-ppc64: -device pc87312: Property 'isa-parallel.chardev' can't take value 'parallel0', it's in use
Mark them with suitable FIXME comments.
Cc: Li Guang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Cc: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: "Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Markus Armbruster