From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 17 06:06:28 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C640EB26 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:06:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@fud.org.nz) Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com (mail-pb0-f54.google.com [209.85.160.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8474D8FC0C for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f54.google.com with SMTP id wz12so3301507pbc.13 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:06:27 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=FJI5Xn6sOFRvyOoE7CR97HrGFDHEvGOEiwXugKDEr8A=; b=Kof/M7ppH4k/IVxwZiPJfBgodGbAkwvanSc5FFsOLTGtbh0bT2y/apN1ctY3mVqK1Q iTmjRlHnBo10BpdOrF2EGr8ZNbQyaJb1vCNFEC4ryT3iheAjtRozG30bMUZOtNmACcQt Zznn3Tj85BTztRH7M5olR1rwZ9rXgHqFk3Ad3QrMEHhU1imljIR/clJwHdafLfeElyCT kLZBGh5u28ufsej3FRW5BPdbSHSTPHFTeFCMXUMZ3kkNQdAZVNEk1NKO2++pidbqN1NN goK/SwmX3hMNRhcSO0Ly1R9qnTkk8njj0V5fc5tA6vCiu5Pn47evLVcug7LZKZxsySff GPnw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.129.233 with SMTP id nz9mr39753411pbb.139.1355724387591; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:06:27 -0800 (PST) Sender: andy@fud.org.nz Received: by 10.68.48.163 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:06:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:06:27 +1300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: dnkBrrep3j5EVj_43hJySTyxIMY Message-ID: Subject: Re: VirtIO in GENERIC From: Andrew Thompson To: Jim Harris X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnPxUc0RYtQK/BrqUD0DeMcPs7hqlGmdW5mF3+bNIP0lQmQpzAoA1gECDYVU3cE7i6wit/J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Bryan Venteicher , freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 06:06:28 -0000 On 17 December 2012 18:06, Jim Harris wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote: > >> On 17 December 2012 13:17, Bryan Venteicher wrote: >> >> > There's been lots of requests to have VirtIO in GENERIC for i386 and >> > amd64. Anybody have any issues or concerns with this or the patch at >> > [1]. This also removes the kludge that was introduced in r239009. >> > >> > I've compiled LINT for i386 and amd64 so hopefully there won't be any >> > surprise breakages. >> > >> > [1] http://people.freebsd.org/~bryanv/patches/virtio.generic.patch >> >> >> It would be great to have the drivers enabled. You do not need the >> sys/conf/files changes, the common and arch files are combined. >> >> > Removing the virtio files from sys/conf/files ensures these drivers can > only be specified in x86 kernel configuration files. r239009 added these > lines to sys/conf/files, but Bryan's patch does it more correctly. > Linux supports virtio on ARM so I dont think its necessarily x86 MD. I guess it can be moved back later. Andrew