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Subject: Re: svn commit: r334365 - head/sys/dev/pci
To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>,
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From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
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Hi Nathan,

> There are a ton of ARM boards that need this too. You can find one-off 
> hacks all through the tree and one of the nice things about this change 
> is that all of those can be consolidated/removed now. If we are going to 
> have some #ifdef and special cases, it would be better to make them for 
> bhyve.

  Sure, but there are multiple orders of magnitude more users of bhyve 
than power9/affected ARM boards, so can a amd64/i386 ifdef be put there 
until that work is done ?

later,

Peter.