On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 18:22:32 +0200, Andrea Bolognani via Devel wrote: > Since these architectures were introduced when qemu-xhci was > already a thing, we never considered allowing the older > nec-xhci model as a fallback. > > That said, every other architecture that defaults to USB3 > allows this, so we might as well be consistent. The chances > of nec-xhci being available when qemu-xhci isn't are of > course close to zero.
I don't really think consistency is a sound argument here. If either of the arches were introduced post qemu-xhci I don't se this as making sense. Yes distros can compile it out in theory but in practice it's nonsense as you'd be emulating some real hardware rather than having a cleaner impl.
