[Qemu-devel] ne2000 bug? buffer full/empty

[Marcel Block <marcelblock@googlemail.com>]

Hi qemu-devers,

this is my first post here, so please be kind :-)

i believe i found a bug in qemu's ne2000 code. i'm currently working on 
a ne2000 driver for my little hobby-os and i'm having some troubles 
getting it to receive any packets when running on qemu. but it works 
fine on bochs and on _real_ ne2000-hardware (rtl8029-pci in my case).

i believe the case "current page register == boundary register" should 
be interpreted as 'buffer empty' instead of 'buffer full'. this was 
changed last year or so by dr. han zhu, i tried to send him a email but 
it looks like the email-address he used back then is no longer available.

the current code looks like this: (hw/ne2000.c):
static int ne2000_buffer_full(NE2000State *s)
{
   int avail, index, boundary;

   index = s->curpag << 8;
   boundary = s->boundary << 8;
   if (index <= boundary)
       avail = boundary - index;
   else
       avail = (s->stop - s->start) - (index - boundary);
   if (avail < (MAX_ETH_FRAME_SIZE + 4))
       return 1;
   return 0;
}

that way qemu thinks the buffer is full if index==boundary. if i change 
the "if(index <= boundary)" back to "if(index < boundary)" my driver 
appears to work fine.

all the specs i read so far tend to initialize those two registers to 
the same value. so it appears logical that index==boundary should be 
interpreted as 'buffer empty'.

i'm waiting for your feedback :-)

best regards,
marcel block