On Jan 1, 2016, at 5:36 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 01/01/2016 21:42, Programmingkid wrote: >>> In other words, the driver is buggy and presumably would have never >>> worked on real hardware? >> >> I can't say that for sure. I would need an actual RTL8139 nic with a >> PowerMac running >> Mac OS 10.4 to answer that question. Is there anyone on the list who knows >> for sure? > > I have a PowerBook and a RTL8139, but unfortunately the NIC is PCMCIA > and the PowerBook doesn't have a port... > > If OpenBIOS can be fixed to work around any bugs in the driver that's > already a good thing, but unfortunately the swapped BARs seem really > fishy. :( Perhaps a property can be added for that, though (e.g. > -global rtl8139.swap-bars-for-os-x-10-4=true). > > Paolo
I really like the idea of having a runtime change of settings rather than a compile-time change. That would make QEMU much more dynamic.
