Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] RTL8139 hotplug is broken on windows 2008 sp2.

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 14.02.2012 04:10, schrieb bo.novell@gmail.com:
> From: Bo Yang <boyang@suse.com>
> 
>  Windows 2008 sp2 tries to read mac address from phys
>  and then write the read value into it. This patch
>  is a workaround for the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <boyang@suse.com>
> ---
>  hw/rtl8139.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Ping! Who feels responsible for reviewing this?
It would be a candidate for 1.1 and 0.15.x (BNC#722643).

Only issue I see is that the subject could be improved (saying what it
does rather than what was broken before, e.g. "rtl8139: Init phys with
MAC address").

Regards,
Andreas

> diff --git a/hw/rtl8139.c b/hw/rtl8139.c
> index 1668390..074a14a 100644
> --- a/hw/rtl8139.c
> +++ b/hw/rtl8139.c
> @@ -3476,6 +3476,8 @@ static int pci_rtl8139_init(PCIDevice *dev)
>      s->eeprom.contents[7] = s->conf.macaddr.a[0] | s->conf.macaddr.a[1] << 8;
>      s->eeprom.contents[8] = s->conf.macaddr.a[2] | s->conf.macaddr.a[3] << 8;
>      s->eeprom.contents[9] = s->conf.macaddr.a[4] | s->conf.macaddr.a[5] << 8;
> +    /* workaround broken windows 2008 sp2 driver. */
> +    memcpy(s->phys, s->conf.macaddr.a, 6);
>  
>      s->nic = qemu_new_nic(&net_rtl8139_info, &s->conf,
>                            object_get_typename(OBJECT(dev)), dev->qdev.id, s);

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