[libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Make virtio as the default net device for PPC64

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:43:27PM +0530, Pradipta Kumar Banerjee wrote:
> On 12/12/2013 05:27 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 05:18:13PM +0530, Pradipta Kr. Banerjee wrote:
> >> From: "Pradipta Kr. Banerjee" <bpradip at in.ibm.com>
> >>
> >> Make virtio as the default net device for PPC64
> > 
> > Why ?
> Hi Daniel,
> rtl8139 is not supported and maintained. Either of e1000, spapr-vlan or virtio
> are supported and improved upon. So its better to default to one of the above
> and virtio is the saner default.

IOW that has nothing todo with PPC64 architecture, which means that is not
an acceptable reason to special case this for PPC64.

Daniel
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