Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:43:48 +0200 From: Henrik Gulbrandsen <henrik@gulbra.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New video BIOS for bhyve Message-ID: <ad479926eeee7f866c10b1eb837c2ab5@www.gulbra.net> In-Reply-To: <08030d2983ce678a531af1077a68fba2@www.gulbra.net> References: <201908011719.x71HJZ4u060700@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <08030d2983ce678a531af1077a68fba2@www.gulbra.net>
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On 2019-08-03 22:32, Henrik Gulbrandsen wrote:
> On 2019-08-01 19:19, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> I let this fall through my cracks as well while busy with
>> other things. I too would like to see this work moved
>> forward. I see that your patches are against an 11.3
>> system, and can appreciate that not everone has resources
>> to run -head, how can we assist in getting these patches
>> moved forward to head?
>
> Oh, I can switch to 13-CURRENT. It's just that I run a single
> passively cooled low-power workstation and build everything
> from source code, so it will take me a couple of days to make
> the switch and rebuild all ports to avoid any ABI problems.
>
> The kernel patches are minor, and it looked like 11.3 had a
> recent merge from current, so I figured the difference would
> be small in practice. However, just in case of potential new
> problems, it seemed better to release a working version for
> 11.3 before I started struggling with the rebase.
It took a while, but now I have switched, tested, and fixed.
The original patch applied immediately to 13-CURRENT, so the
only problem was a Makefile change to deal with the new ld.
I'm still waiting for some input on repository requirements,
so I have just uploaded the new patch to the same web page:
https://www.gulbra.net/freebsd-bhyve/
/Henrik
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