On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Jim Harris <jimharris_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Andrew Thompson <thompsa_at_freebsd.org> > wrote: >> >> On 17 December 2012 13:17, Bryan Venteicher <bryanv_at_freebsd.org> 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. > > The only question I have is the GENERIC changes where "device virtio" is > added - it says it is required, but should this instead say it's required > for any of the other drivers in this section? > Yes, that wording could be improved; will update the patch in the morning. > -Jim >Received on Mon Dec 17 2012 - 06:17:41 UTC
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