Re: VirtIO in GENERIC

On 12/17/12 00:06, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On 17 December 2012 18:06, 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.
>>
> 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