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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Intel 8255x/eepro100 compatibility patches
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:13:51PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 03:26:25PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Please send this as a series of patches with each patch in an email.
> 
> Ok, resending as a series of patches, hopefully this is the proper format now.
> Repeating myself a bit from the original mail:
> I have been playing around a bit with the OS X/darwin network drivers for these
> cards and noticed that they seem to differ quite a bit from the Linux ones.
> If you're interested, the source of the core part is here:
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/AppleIntel8255x/AppleIntel8255x-19/i82557Private.cpp
> Attached is a series of patches that makes things work with at least
> some version of that (sorry, I only tried some binary I found on the
> net, didn't compile from source).
> In addition, I also used the documentation from here:
> http://www.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8255X_OpenSDM.htm
> 
> Hope this is interesting to someone and maybe we can even get these
> merged...

I know it hasn't been that long, but still: ping?
Btw. I have tested my patched version with OSX (10.5), OpenSolaris (0906), Ubuntu (9.10
alpha) and FreeBSD 7.2 (admittedly only x86/x86_64) and found no issues.