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From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PCNet PCI NIC
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:37:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088368622.30448.135.camel@sherbert> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1088366438.5517.70.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com>

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On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 21:00 +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote:
> Here is a patch against a recent QEMU CVS to emulate an AMD PC-Net II
> PCI ethernet adaptor. It is a bus-mastering adaptor with both 16bit and
> 32bit modes.
> 
> This patch adds a new command line option "-nic-pcnet" which enables the
> this NIC emulation instead of the NE2000 nic.

Sounds cool :)

> ERRATA:
> 1. currently does not fully implement automatic tx ring polling...
> Polling may only occur when another event 'triggers' it such as packet
> receive, transmit or device i/o

Can't you use a qemu vtimer for this, or is the frequency too high for
that to be performant?

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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-27 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-16 14:46 [Qemu-devel] Patches "repository" Hetz Ben Hamo
2004-06-23 12:24 ` Antony T Curtis
2004-06-24 14:08   ` Hetz Ben Hamo
2004-06-27 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] PCNet PCI NIC Antony T Curtis
2004-06-27 20:37   ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2004-06-27 23:33   ` [Qemu-devel] " Hetz Ben Hamo

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