On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 14:09 +0200, Milan Jurik wrote: > Hi, > > V Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:42:14 +0200 > dpecka <[email protected]> napsáno: > > > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 08:31 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > > Actually, usually the emulation doesn't emulate the full hardware, > > > just enough to make the typical OS drivers work with it. In some > > > cases, the behaviors are very fragile, depending on specific > > > initialization sequences, such that when the driver does them > > > differently (perhaps on a different OS), the emulation fails to > > > work. > > > > > > -- Garrett > > > > well, in short (i discussed this with qemu/kvm guys): > > > > 1) sunos guys say that problem is in driver emulation .. ok, right > > 2) qemu guys say **YOU FIX (cuz you have strange implementation) > > > > Do they say what Solaris e1000g driver is doing wrong? To be fair, it > works on real HW (and e.g. in VMware and VirtualBox) and they are > emulation of HW.... Yes, it can be bug in Solaris driver, of course. > But if I am doing emulation of some HW, I am trying to emulate it > accurately.
my bad, i badly described it. they just say, that we're those who have to provide info (find out what went wrong) and of course possibly fix .. which sounds reasonable > > > there is no way out from this .. so i'd like to fix .. it has only one > > problem .. i am unable to dig out from mdb or whatever i should use > > what's happening bad in sunos kernel with loaded e1000 driver .. > > > > logs don't contain any clue, everything seems just fine .. > > > > i'll very appreciate any hint or link to docs which would tell me, > > what to be looking for in there .. > > > > You will need to look at Solaris e1000g driver source code and trying to > catch if some receiving function fails. For "how it works" look at > "Writing device drivers" docu. > i've rather meant, that i'm still unable to dig out from mdb what wrong in there. but ok, i'll spend some time with it, just to be honest i worked on this only hour or two already. > Best regards, > > Milan > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss ave, daniel -- Best Regards / S Pozdravem Daniel Pecka -------------------------------------------------- SunOS Specialist, UNIX Administrator www.techniservit.cz mailto:<[email protected]> callto:<+0420603166533> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
