From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Thu Aug 15 18:50:58 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65187B3261 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:50:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henrik@gulbra.net) Received: from srv.gulbra.net (ec2-174-129-193-206.compute-1.amazonaws.com [174.129.193.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468bBT5lrTz4HrK for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:50:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henrik@gulbra.net) Received: from srv.gulbra.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by srv.gulbra.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD35B6A6 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:43:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by srv.gulbra.net (Postfix, from userid 33) id 9CD946A8; Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:43:48 +0000 (UTC) To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: New video BIOS for bhyve X-PHP-Originating-Script: 0:rcube.php MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:43:48 +0200 From: Henrik Gulbrandsen Cc: John Baldwin , FreeBSD Virtualization In-Reply-To: <08030d2983ce678a531af1077a68fba2@www.gulbra.net> References: <201908011719.x71HJZ4u060700@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <08030d2983ce678a531af1077a68fba2@www.gulbra.net> Message-ID: X-Sender: henrik@gulbra.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2-beta X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 468bBT5lrTz4HrK X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of henrik@gulbra.net has no SPF policy when checking 174.129.193.206) smtp.mailfrom=henrik@gulbra.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.72 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.97)[-0.966,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; IP_SCORE(-0.52)[ipnet: 174.129.0.0/16(0.71), asn: 14618(-3.27), country: US(-0.05)]; HAS_X_POS(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[gulbra.net]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; PHP_SCRIPT_ROOT(1.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.989,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.75)[-0.748,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:14618, ipnet:174.129.0.0/16, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MID_RHS_WWW(0.50)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:50:58 -0000 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