* Mon Aug 04 2025 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 10.0.0-9

- kvm-Declare-rtl8139-as-deprecated.patch [RHEL-45624]
- Resolves: RHEL-45624
  (Deprecate rtl8139 NIC in QEMU)

kvm-Declare-rtl8139-as-deprecated.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+From e4a324ce1f4ffca214b6d5b5681b9eca630707bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:00:50 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Declare rtl8139 as deprecated
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+RH-Author: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
+RH-MergeRequest: 396: Declare rtl8139 as deprecated
+RH-Jira: RHEL-45624
+RH-Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@redhat.com>
+RH-Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
+RH-Acked-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
+RH-Commit: [1/1] d44c1b68b59f1442b01c84b43e07aed5f4d254bc (lvivier/qemu-kvm-centos)
+
+JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-45624
+Upstream: RHEL ONLY
+
+The e1000+e1000e pair should be more than sufficient for the
+"ancient non-virtio NIC" use case.
+
+There does not appear to be any compelling reason to continue supporting
+the rtl8139 NIC, so we should deprecate it in RHEL-10, with a view to
+deleting it in RHEL-11.
+
+Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
+---
+ hw/net/rtl8139.c | 4 ++++
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/hw/net/rtl8139.c b/hw/net/rtl8139.c
+index 31a6956252..7609006394 100644
+--- a/hw/net/rtl8139.c
++++ b/hw/net/rtl8139.c
+@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
+ #include "system/dma.h"
+ #include "qemu/module.h"
+ #include "qemu/timer.h"
++#include "qemu/error-report.h"
+ #include "net/net.h"
+ #include "net/eth.h"
+ #include "system/system.h"
+@@ -3364,6 +3365,9 @@ static void pci_rtl8139_realize(PCIDevice *dev, Error **errp)
+     DeviceState *d = DEVICE(dev);
+     uint8_t *pci_conf;
+ 
++    warn_report("'rtl8139' is deprecated, "
++                "please use a different Network Interface Card");
++
+     pci_conf = dev->config;
+     pci_conf[PCI_INTERRUPT_PIN] = 1;    /* interrupt pin A */
+     /* TODO: start of capability list, but no capability
+-- 
+2.39.3
+

qemu-kvm.spec

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Obsoletes: %{name}-block-ssh <= %{epoch}:%{version}                    \
 Summary: QEMU is a machine emulator and virtualizer
 Name: qemu-kvm
 Version: 10.0.0
-Release: 8%{?rcrel}%{?dist}%{?cc_suffix}
+Release: 9%{?rcrel}%{?dist}%{?cc_suffix}
 # Epoch because we pushed a qemu-1.0 package. AIUI this can't ever be dropped
 # Epoch 15 used for RHEL 8
 # Epoch 17 used for RHEL 9 (due to release versioning offset in RHEL 8.5)
@@ -414,6 +414,8 @@ Patch125: kvm-block-mark-bdrv_drained_begin-and-friends-as-GRAPH_U.patch
 Patch126: kvm-iotests-graph-changes-while-io-remove-image-file-aft.patch
 # For RHEL-88561 - qemu graph deadlock during job-dismiss
 Patch127: kvm-iotests-graph-changes-while-io-add-test-case-with-re.patch
+# For RHEL-45624 - Deprecate rtl8139 NIC in QEMU
+Patch128: kvm-Declare-rtl8139-as-deprecated.patch
 
 %if %{have_clang}
 BuildRequires: clang
@@ -1496,6 +1498,11 @@ useradd -r -u 107 -g qemu -G kvm -d / -s /sbin/nologin \
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Aug 04 2025 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 10.0.0-9
+- kvm-Declare-rtl8139-as-deprecated.patch [RHEL-45624]
+- Resolves: RHEL-45624
+  (Deprecate rtl8139 NIC in QEMU)
+
 * Mon Jul 28 2025 Miroslav Rezanina <mrezanin@redhat.com> - 10.0.0-8
 - kvm-migration-multifd-move-macros-to-multifd-header.patch [RHEL-59697]
 - kvm-migration-refactor-channel-discovery-mechanism.patch [RHEL-59697]