On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 02:39:25PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:12:52AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: >> We can easily modify SeaBIOS to just loop through all PCI devices, >> look for an e1000 and initialize it far enough for XNU, no? >> After all, it sounds like that's closer to the way a real Mac works. > > I'd much prefer Alex's suggestion so we avoid putting guest-specific > hacks into QEMU. > > If there is really no better solution, please make an "extra" behavior > disabled by default and accessible through a device property. For > example -device e1000,xnu-preinit-hack=on.
I agree too, in principle. OTOH I'm a bit worried that teaching SeaBIOS about e1000, and then getting that change upstreamed there might be a whole different size of problem to solve :) I will however give that a shot first, and fall back to "xnu-preinit-hack=on" only if that doesn't work out... Thanks, --Gabriel
