[Qemu-devel] some updates about patches on my web site

[Qemu-devel] some updates about patches on my web site

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

Hi People,

Here are some updates about the patches on my web site..

* Cirrus Logic VGA fix - the patch is right there and needs to be 
applied in almost any situation these days (it also helps if you're 
booting Mandrake 10 install CD, same for Fedora and SuSE - now you see 
the graphics perfectly)

* AMD PCNet - latest driver is there (version .4), so give it a try and 
report back to Antony Curtis (antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com) about bugs 
or suggestions..

* lomount - the program that will help you to mount your virtual hard 
disk image into your Linux/BSD host machine. Again, latest version is 
there, and if you see bugs - shout!

Anyone seen Fabrice lately? :)

Thanks,
Hetz

Re: [Qemu-devel] some updates about patches on my web site

[Fabrice Bellard]

Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi People,
> 
> Here are some updates about the patches on my web site..
> 
> * Cirrus Logic VGA fix - the patch is right there and needs to be 
> applied in almost any situation these days (it also helps if you're 
> booting Mandrake 10 install CD, same for Fedora and SuSE - now you see 
> the graphics perfectly)

This patch needs validation because the pattern_pitch should be 32 in 24 
bpp mode according to the Cirrus specs.

> * AMD PCNet - latest driver is there (version .4), so give it a try and 
> report back to Antony Curtis (antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com) about bugs 
> or suggestions..

I would like to know why it is faster than the NE2K driver so that the 
NE2K driver can be fixed too.

> * lomount - the program that will help you to mount your virtual hard 
> disk image into your Linux/BSD host machine. Again, latest version is 
> there, and if you see bugs - shout!

Seems to be useful, but the code needs to be simplified.

* tty

It is merged.

* VNC

Will be merged ASAP, at least to use the keyboard mappings on non x86 
host platforms.

* USB

Not finished.

* PCI proxy

Not critical.

* Mac-OS-X-host

Merge in progress.

* Win32 patches

Will be merged ASAP.

* BSD patches

Will be merged ASAP.

Fabrice.

Re: [Qemu-devel] some updates about patches on my web site

[Chad Page]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> > * AMD PCNet - latest driver is there (version .4), so give it a try and 
> > report back to Antony Curtis (antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com) about bugs 
> > or suggestions..
> 
> I would like to know why it is faster than the NE2K driver so that the 
> NE2K driver can be fixed too.

	It's an intrinsic property of the programming interface - PCNet is
DMA and NE2K isn't... so the driver has to issue PIO instructions for
every (pair) of bytes and is much slower.
 
	Things're sounding good...

	- Chad