Re: netdde builds

Hello,

Michael Kelly, le lun. 29 juin 2026 06:27:30 +0100, a ecrit:
> On 28/06/2026 21:10, Jason Montleon wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. The system is a virtual machine. I switched the NIC from e1000e to an e1000 and it boots OK now, so seems to be an interaction with the e1000e.
> > 
> > The entire boot is here:
> > https://gist.github.com/jasonmontleon/62ca5b508e331182675e3440895bb626
> 
> Using e1000e with netdde (0.0.20200330-13) does indeed fail on hurd-i386 and
> hurd-amd64. The latter hangs after issuing the DHCPREQUEST whilst the former
> like Jason reported.  e1000e worked in the previous netdde. I hadn't been
> aware of this Qemu NIC option but I see that Linux 'Virtual Machine Manager
> 5.0.0' now lists e1000e rather than e1000 which I think might be a recent
> change on my host.
> 
> The workaround is to substitute e1000e for e1000 but fixing this properly is
> now number 1 on my list.
> 
> Should version 12 be restored as the latest 'sid' for the time being ?

It's not that easy to do. The archive versions are monotonic, so it'd
mean reuploading libacpica with some patches reverted, then re-build
netdde against that newer version.

Honestly, if we can rather just upload a fix that'd be best.

Samuel