Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:06:26 -0500 From: Bryan Venteicher <bryanv@daemoninthecloset.org> To: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net> Subject: Re: 8.x and virtio? Message-ID: <CAMo0n6Qg_1wWvTVpct8GRBQz3UmMiM%2Bt3O0Q=%2BUd4FEP-13NAg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHzLAVGbXHUw0cNnR2sseiLqB25LJUU%2BBbAcuaYME1XqPZDCXA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAHzLAVE2uGsCsqaQ6BveaiezC4YAnmL4rUepM1yn4F=EsjjVdg@mail.gmail.com> <000C2F50-A6F8-48A6-973C-68C4C28F1C71@inoc.net> <CAHzLAVGbXHUw0cNnR2sseiLqB25LJUU%2BBbAcuaYME1XqPZDCXA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net> > wrote: > > > On Jul 24, 2014, at 7:46 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> > wrote: > > > > > > Is there significant effort involved with merging the virtio code fro= m > 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? > > =E2=80=8BAssuming you're close to 8-STABLE, I'd expect it not to be too muc= h to work to run newer VirtIO code. There's several changes that I still need to MFC to 9, since it was in a freeze for the 9.3 release when I was MFC'ing to 10. I should get that done in the next few weeks. Due to pending EOL and my limited time, I've stopped MFC'ing new features to 8. I'm not aware of any bugs=E2=80=8B in the 8-STABLE code though. > -- > Take care > Rick Miller > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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