[B2-devel] SheepShaver Ethernet weirdness

[Gwenole B. <gb...@di...>]

Hi,

I have arranged SheepShaver code to be a little more little-endian aware. 
Current patches are available here for review:
<http://gwenole.beauchesne.free.fr/sheepshaver/patches/>
File: sheep_ethernet.diff

However, with highly loaded pages (live.apple.com or whatever is the
default page for MSIE 5.1), SheepShaver/x86 will hang because it can no
longer allocb() enough space (WARNING: Cannot allocate mblk for received
packet).  Then, I wondered, when are we supposed to call freeb()? I
looked, we never do so. I think freemsg() will call it though.

I haven't tried on native/ppc yet, so I was wondering whether my patches
didn't fully make little-endian clean code, or is there another problem in
SheepShaver core. I am using sheep_net ethernet support.

Bye,
Gwenole.