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  1. adds a very helpful hermit-ifup script for automated TAP device configuration with QEMU,
  2. adds TAP device support to xtask,
  3. test TAP devices in CI, and
  4. disables the malfunctioning VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM and VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_CSUM features.

CSUM and GUEST_CSUM have been advertised by us for a long time, but we did not notice any failures since few devices advertise the features; thus the features have not been negotiated before.
Apart from devices like the Bluefield, vhost also supports this feature nowadays, which is why using TAP devices would break in some circumstances.
A proper fix for these features is underway in #1488.

@mkroening mkroening requested a review from stlankes June 27, 2025 21:49
@mkroening mkroening self-assigned this Jun 27, 2025
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