From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 24 15:28:04 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 D9013BDA for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:28:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E6F8FC13 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 15:28:04 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0MFJ00702KAMIG00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:27:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (c-24-63-204-107.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [24.63.204.107]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0MFJ005ZGKAD5700@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:27:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:27:49 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn Subject: Re: VirtIO in GENERIC In-reply-to: Sender: whitehorn@wisc.edu To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-id: <50D87475.1050708@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=24.63.204.107 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-15, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2012.12.24.151515, SenderIP=24.63.204.107 References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 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, 24 Dec 2012 15:28:04 -0000 On 12/17/12 00:06, Andrew Thompson wrote: > 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. > It also exists on powerpc64. -Nathan