Re: [Qemu-devel] emulated lance device crashes in debian-sparc32

[Paul Brook]

> So the issue on sparc was that the device is relied on by the
> SS-5 platform code (it sounds like sun4m has this device on-board at
> a fixed offset, non-pci), but not initialized properly due to the lack
> of -net nic?  Should sun4m imply -net nic,model=lance then?  It doesn't
> make much sense to me to ever turn the lance port off, if its
> integrated into the platform itself (not a daughter card).

It looks like it should be fairly easy to make sun4m-without-lance work.
While this might not be a particularly useful/realistic combination, I think 
it's worth having consistent -net bahavior.

Paul