Re: [Qemu-devel] Large patch set advice

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 26.04.2018 21:53, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:22 AM, Kamil Rytarowski <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 26.04.2018 10:11, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> On 25 April 2018 at 20:57, Warner Losh <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I’ve foolishly volunteered to rebase all the changes that the bad-user
>>>> mode folks have done to a recent master rev to get these changes
>> upstreamed.
>>>> A number of people have been working on this for a long time. It’s
>> possible
>>>> now to run almost any FreeBSD binary from all the architectures. We use
>> it
>>>> to do ‘native’ builds of tens of thousands of packages in a chroot (so
>>>> building FreeBSD/arm packages on a FreeBSD amd64 box). The diffs are
>> quite
>>>> large (on the order of 42k lines), so I anticipate some bumps in moving
>>>> this stuff upstream.
>>>
>>> So, first up, thanks for agreeing to do this. It sounds from your
>>> mail like you're already pretty well aware of the usual pitfalls
>>> with this kind of work, and I don't really have much to add that's
>>> QEMU specific that nobody else has said already.
>>>
>>> One question I do have is about the other BSDs: bsd-user at least
>>> in theory is supposed to support freebsd, netbsd and openbsd.
>>> Your patchsets should fix freebsd, but do you know what the status
>>> is of netbsd and openbsd? Upstream we do compiletest but no runtime
>>> testing; I think last time I tried it they didn't work very well,
>>> but it would be worth checking with the other BSDs downstream to
>>> see if they're using bsd-user and to make sure we don't break anything
>>> that is currently working for netbsd/openbsd...
>>>
>>
>> I'm looking forward to see it updated for FreeBSD first. We can
>> reschedule NetBSD part for later.
>>
>> Feel free to CC me for code review.
>>
> 
> Sure. Will do. Do you have NetBSD patches against the git repo as well?
> 

At the moment nothing sharable for NetBSD.

> Warner
>

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