Re: Loss of ed(4) in a RC1 booted in qemu

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0600 (MDT) · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:45 UTC

In message: <20051013200254.GA11267_at_saturn.kn-bremen.de>
            Juergen Lock <nox_at_jelal.kn-bremen.de> writes:
: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 02:28:18PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
: > On Thursday 13 October 2005 12:10 pm, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
: > > QEMU emulates RTL8029:
: > >
: > > ed0: <RealTek 8029> port 0xc100-0xc1ff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci0
: > > ed0: Reserved 0x100 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0xc100
: > >
: > > and Warner Losh MFC'd new ed(4) right before 6.0-RC1:
: > >
: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200510081800.j98I0fRI089493
: > >
: > > The new driver does more aggressive probing and it seems QEMU
: > > cannot handle it.
: > 
: > Just for the time being, you can drop the attachment in 
: > ports/emulators/qemu/files directory and rebuild qemu to get ed(4) 
: > back.
: > 
: > Jung-uk Kim
: 
: >[patch snipped]
: 
: Okay, we could add this as an option to our qemu port (`-ne2kvia' or
: something like that), anyone thinks it is necessary?  (I guess this
: issue will be fixed in 6.0-R?)

We could also fix the RTL8029 emulation to like work :-)

Warner