Re: netbsd-5 on Citrix XenClient 2.1 (on an HP EliteBook 8460p)

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 12:55:55PM -0800, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> Either that or maybe the support for the unique chips it alone can
> handle should be migrated to rtk(4) and re(4) should be sent to the bit
> bucket.  (That's said with my only, at least even semi-recent,
> experience with the both of them being now with XenClient.)

That's pretty silly.  The chips have two different modes, and the
legacy mode rtk uses has awful performance -- as you have just found.

A broken implementation that claims it's an 8169-like chip, on the
part of QEMU or Xen, isn't a reason to cripple or discard a driver that
works with the real hardware.

Thor