From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rdreier@cisco.com
Cc: drifter@bcsoft.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000 under VMware doesn't work since 2.6.27.16 - BISECTED
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:55:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320.165516.112348262.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adafxh7yext.fsf@cisco.com>
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:03:58 -0700
> > > we're using virtual machines under VMware with the e1000 emulated
> > > network card.
>
> > Sounds like vmware doesn't emulate the e1000 accurately enough.
>
> I would consider problems with the vmware emulated e1000 to be similar
> to hardware quirks in some other chip rev supported by the e1000
> driver. If a driver change broke e1000 inside a vmware VM then we
> should probably fix the kernel if possible (although vmware probably
> wants to improve their emulation too).
If such a "fix" would be to the detriment of real actual hardware,
this logic doesn't hold.
The same applies to cases like qemu as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-20 16:41 e1000 under VMware doesn't work since 2.6.27.16 - BISECTED Jens Stroebel
2009-03-20 22:57 ` David Miller
2009-03-20 23:03 ` Roland Dreier
2009-03-20 23:55 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-03-21 0:00 ` David Miller
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