Re: [Qemu-devel] PATCH [1/2] Patches to support Juniper Olives - eepro100 multicast

["andrzej zaborowski" <balrogg@gmail.com>]

2008/10/16 Brandon Bennett <bennetb@gmail.com>:
> These patches are what I found was needed/wanted to support a "Juniper
> Olive".   Juniper routers run on off the shelf x86 archecture as a
> result you can load JunOS (the software that runs on Juniper routers)
> onto any standard PC and run it as an Olive.   Olive is the state of a
> router without a PFE (the forwarding plane of a juniper router).  The
> olive allows you to do most Juniper routing allowing you to study for
> certifications, test out network changes, or test new features.
>
> More information here:  http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Olive
>
> The first patch is to update eepro100.c to the latest version found
> from Stefan Weil's ar7-firmware qemu trunk.   This patch is essential
> as it fixes multicast with the eepr100 supported nics.   Olive routers
> only support this nic so it is essential.
>
> This patch is line for line from Weil's respository with no changes.
> I hope this is alright to support others work.

I think so.

Note that the patch changes the license for eepro100.c to GPL3+.  I'm
no expert on this but I believe doing this would prohibit people from
distributing qemu packages.

Cheers