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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:11:32 +0200
From:      Andrei Martin <andrei.cos.martin@gmail.com>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: [arm64][bhyve] Hypervisor implementation proposal
Message-ID:  <CAC%2BC28R8fDygSm=HrFuYmG2znhV7UqWfJwStM1W3NXkOoi2MaA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <91d3502e-20ef-8487-7560-66d30dc55e23@freebsd.org>
References:  <92471791-E6DC-47E4-9124-79558DDCA7D0@gmail.com> <91d3502e-20ef-8487-7560-66d30dc55e23@freebsd.org>

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Hi Peter,

Thanks for your response.

I have updated the revision by removing the armv7 support and host platform
support.

Andrei

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 11:37 AM Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi Andrei,
>
> > The UPB team made a revision for the bhyve on arm/arm64 on
> phabricator[1].
> >
> > Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26976 <
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26976>;
>
>   Thanks for putting up the review: that is a sizeable amount of work.
>
>   I'd suggest removing 32-bit host support from the review to reduce the
> size. Note that Linux/KVM has dropped 32-bit host support (see the
> thread at
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/cover/20200210141324.21090-1-maz@kernel.org/),
>
> and the same reasons would apply to FreeBSD.
>     If there is interest it could be resurrected at a later time.
>
>   The MI/MD split could be done independently of this. It has been
> talked about for a long while, so I'll commit to doing this in the
> existing amd64 codebase. The ARM work could then be rebased into that.
>
>   Also, any host platform support, such as the ARM simulator or
> EspressoBin, could be split out since it's independent of the hypervisor
> portion.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>



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