From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 24 16:06:48 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C86D8C6 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com (mail-vc0-f169.google.com [209.85.220.169]) (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 45C002FBC for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:06:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id hu12so5364610vcb.14 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:06:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=ywvz2xkn9cpTxDeFWi2rgratX7wAeRw/H2oHUihD6zA=; b=lDzrBmSPjg55pnN62yo5XQVK6PZrgfaHxjcAO2PARj7T40XhSp7PxZazyIDA4dPmLw COEHY0nusrmzvg1mkaKjbhyGLY9SXtlELALo4ukd0g1EnOrx9yghvoJySa4mBoYs5W8/ CCChVPHQ3bh+R1Tw0zp4mF8OH5eNklKqWkn+AaozseJ40Rc8ITZKG+eMLjrnoavzh7GB S4GBx/F1k5fLW/V7DNYgLnDH5hQ4tIYFA3N9Tjb7btN1lPjCMK8886rplVzkfrAH862+ KAUiWrN6pjOjQJ+ellZM/cfXuL6Wa/TeZS4vyuctxekAtzxV7XT3ANDMiNTDtKGtnxWm JeBA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkCFF40YrHo1+WMR6DqZZHu8b/dlc9SZVLlFHa5G2LkGMlzpxkZn606+nFthIu8D9oHu4aU X-Received: by 10.220.133.13 with SMTP id d13mr13782809vct.66.1406218006404; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:06:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.58.33.131 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:06:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [216.240.30.23] In-Reply-To: References: <000C2F50-A6F8-48A6-973C-68C4C28F1C71@inoc.net> From: Bryan Venteicher Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:06:26 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 8.x and virtio? To: Rick Miller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" , Robert Blayzor 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 16:06:48 -0000 On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Rick Miller wrote: > 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 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" >