[v2] qemu: Improve handling of architecture-specific defaults (USB and PCI)

[PATCH v2 38/38] news: Update for USB controller model selection improvements

Posted by Andrea Bolognani via Devel 1 week, 2 days ago

Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
---
 NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index 847dcb390b..3b61694326 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ v11.8.0 (unreleased)
 
 * **Improvements**
 
+  * qemu: Improvements to USB controller model selection
+
+    Virtualization-friendly USB3 controllers are now used in more situations,
+    Intel-specific USB controllers are relegated to x86 guests, and model
+    selection overall behaves more consistently across architectures.
+
 * **Bug fixes**
 
   * qemu: Fix selection of stateless/combined firmware
-- 
2.51.0

Re: [PATCH v2 38/38] news: Update for USB controller model selection improvements

Posted by Peter Krempa via Devel 1 day, 12 hours ago

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 20:07:24 +0200, Andrea Bolognani via Devel wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
> ---
>  NEWS.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index 847dcb390b..3b61694326 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ v11.8.0 (unreleased)

Don't forget to rebase this under the correct release

>  
>  * **Improvements**
>  
> +  * qemu: Improvements to USB controller model selection
> +
> +    Virtualization-friendly USB3 controllers are now used in more situations,
> +    Intel-specific USB controllers are relegated to x86 guests, and model
> +    selection overall behaves more consistently across architectures.
> +
>  * **Bug fixes**
>  
>    * qemu: Fix selection of stateless/combined firmware
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 

Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>