On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> My fear is that this approach of building a new e1000-ng device in
> parallel with having the existing e1000 device is going to cause
> long term pain, possibly never getting to a state where the e1000-ng
> device can replace the e1000 de
FWIW, it is generally recommended that new versions of patch series be
posted as a new top level thread, not in-reply-to the previous version.
That way the new posting gets attention near top of a dev's email inbox,
as opposed to hidden away as a reply to a weeks old msg at the back of
the inbox.
>From a hardware functionality and register perspective, the Intel
8254x Gigabit Ethernet Controller[1] is roughly a subset of the Intel
82574[2], making it practical to implement e1000 device emulation as
an extension of e1000e.
That would be a step towards eliminating the existing e1000
implemen
