From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 14:34:44 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 32A83973 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22c.google.com (mail-ig0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0068C263C for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:34:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f172.google.com with SMTP id h15so6520379igd.17 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:34:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=GztWXEgBUWQ5+v6dCuvHZ8RtTe6qdqLHI5+c6pLivQI=; b=vbbn2xxFM1mqEW0Ka9nTNWAXiGM/dAZkgeycRfzr+28yVY1RLxhIY7OHPlBdiDf6qu HUyGfpXU5tOEF7Xe2qWQM5ymCUfg6a1eMZx3RbIee+7Q+OMzig0k1SlIi6leNSLhKqZW 3x/z96lBV6rTLRKF8+FOj9mYUY7iP+P60/lI8C86LLwOvwDZTPF7L8+PyhXnAC1SKjAn EP8giNPadCJGtWGOa+TyneXBA7WmJoQiYKpaVgWCDEAxPH3AflPN71hotY1j+mtUB4hy 7h0J+dSm5HhTTnes4QbAyhoGeu8xfe9WBwy6MecEV4dXoc2N5Mcz+EiikiL4J/bigX7d WRoA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.80.7 with SMTP id t7mr13239525ick.9.1406212482940; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Sender: vrwmiller@gmail.com Received: by 10.64.165.73 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 07:34:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <000C2F50-A6F8-48A6-973C-68C4C28F1C71@inoc.net> References: <000C2F50-A6F8-48A6-973C-68C4C28F1C71@inoc.net> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:34:42 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: sU0b1R2Svyre9AwwJfmjd1zIUHY Message-ID: Subject: Re: 8.x and virtio? From: Rick Miller To: Robert Blayzor Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:34:44 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Robert Blayzor wrote: > On Jul 24, 2014, at 7:46 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > > > > Is there significant effort involved with merging the virtio code from a > 9 > > or 10 branch into an 8 branch? Special considerations? > > > Unless you're hoping for an 8.5 release, which is unlikely, I'd expect not. > > The path of least resistance is to upgrade. > I don't expect the community to take this up. I'm most interested in the level of effort to do so internally if we were so inclined. Would it be a simple merge of the code from any 9 or 10 branch into a private, internal 8 branch or is it a more complicated process requiring a multitude of considerations? -- Take care Rick Miller