On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:19:43AM -0800, rajan pathak wrote: > I am looking forward to emulate single-chip Ethernet controller. > > I can find some of its source code online and it has two main part Ethernet > PHY (any 1GB SGMII compatible) > and Ethernet MAC . > > So ,DO I need to simply put the corresponding source files of PHY and MAC > in hw/net directory of QEMU?
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you have source code for QEMU emulation of the network card? If you have some other source code like a driver for the card, or emulation for the card but not for QEMU, then a lot more work would be necessary to emulate the card in QEMU. > Also ,do I need to take care of underlying Ethernet controller(of my > machine where I am trying to do this) from > Broadcom in any way? QEMU uses mechanisms to send raw packets from userspace, like the tun/tap driver that many OSes have. Therefore the physical NIC doesn't matter, it's abstracted by the tun/tap interface that the host kernel provides.
