[Qemu-devel] Andrew Curtis' PCNet Patch built on MingW

[Qemu-devel] Andrew Curtis' PCNet Patch built on MingW

[Garth Dahlstrom]

Hi All, 

It took me some time, but I was finally able to compile Andrew Curtis
PCNet patch against QEMU 0.6.0 on MingW...

The good news is it almost works... that is to say it compiles and
detects under a guest linux when using the -nic-pcnet commandline
parameter for qemu.

The bad news is it's broken, it does not actually dhcp down the
10.0.2.15 address and produces 'Bad SWSTYLE=0x04' on the console.

I suspect my brutal handling of the PACKED attribute in pcnet.h is the
cause of this problem, but am unsure.  I should proably warn you all
that, I'm not a C programmer and haven't coded it for about 7 years,
so it's rather a hack job that it compiles... :)

If anyone who builds on Windows would have a go at seeing if they can
figure out what's messed up, I'd really appreciated it.

Cheers,

-G

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[Qemu-devel] Re: Andrew Curtis' PCNet Patch built on MingW

[Garth Dahlstrom]

Of course, it would help if I included the url to get the stuff, eh?. :)

Here it is: http://www.northern.ca/projects/qemu/

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Andrew Curtis' PCNet Patch built on MingW

[Antony T Curtis]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 05:03, Garth Dahlstrom wrote:
> Hi All, 
> 
> It took me some time, but I was finally able to compile Andrew Curtis
> PCNet patch against QEMU 0.6.0 on MingW...
> 
> The good news is it almost works... that is to say it compiles and
> detects under a guest linux when using the -nic-pcnet commandline
> parameter for qemu.
> 
> The bad news is it's broken, it does not actually dhcp down the
> 10.0.2.15 address and produces 'Bad SWSTYLE=0x04' on the console.

There is no such SWSTYLE as 0x04 on the PC-Net chip I emulated. You
should be able to safely ignore this message.

> I suspect my brutal handling of the PACKED attribute in pcnet.h is the
> cause of this problem, but am unsure.  I should proably warn you all
> that, I'm not a C programmer and haven't coded it for about 7 years,
> so it's rather a hack job that it compiles... :)

maybe the PACKED name conflicts with some existing symbol if you are
having to undef it... Can you find what the original definition of it
is? And perhaps I should call it PCN_PACKED maybe...

> If anyone who builds on Windows would have a go at seeing if they can
> figure out what's messed up, I'd really appreciated it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -G
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