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Subject: Re: 8.x and virtio?
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net>
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On Jul 24, 2014, at 7:46 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> 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.