Re: [Qemu-devel] Large patch set advice

[Peter Maydell]

On 26 April 2018 at 20:51, Warner Losh <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 2:11 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> 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 thought that was the empty set: I was under the impression that bsd-user
> in upstream was basically totally broken and nothing non-trivial worked.
> Since nothing is working, I'd posit that it follows that nobody could be
> currently using it. I've certainly heard of no parallel efforts to make
> similar changes for NetBSD/OpenBSD.

Well, I'm basically just asking you to reach out and check with
the other *BSD folks that they agree with that "it's totally broken"
analysis (which I guess they would). I see Kamil has given the
answer for NetBSD already.

thanks
-- PMM