Re: [Qemu-devel] Can you commit the pcnet patch ?

[Lars Munch]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:32:10PM +0200, Ludovic Drolez wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I've tried the latest AMD pcnet patch (made by Antony T Curtis) with qemu 
> 0.7 because I was tired of the sloooww PXE booting of my QEMU. For exemple, 
> to load a linux kernel + initrd over TFTP, it takes 4m30s with a ne2000, 
> and 1m35s with the PCNET card.

Does anyone know why pcnet is so much faster than ne2000? is it easier
to emulate? or is there room for improvements on the ne2000?  

-- Lars Munch