On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes, for sure we need to do a check.
>
> However, this would involve - I think - some non-trivial modifications to
> net/netmap.c, because without NS_MOREFRAG you cannot split a packet over
> more "netmap slots/descriptors" (both tx and rx side)
>
> Therefore I would ask (manly Luigi, since netmap is in-tree in FreeBSD):
> Wouldn't it be better to force --disable-netmap when we realize that
> NETMAP_API (version number for the netmap API) is less than the value
> required by QEMU? This can be done in ./configure. In this way we keep the
> QEMU code cleaner.
>

yes we should do exactly what vincenzo suggests.

cheers
luigi