Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD

I tried to integrate this patch into 10.1_RC3 and I failed.  Is there a
timeframe to MFC this to 10.1 or 10-STABLE?

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Benjamin Perrault <ben.perrault_at_gmail.com>
wrote:

> After a few days of extensive testing and abuse, i’ve run into no new
> issues or unknowns what so ever. Everything that worked before still works
> now ( and a few bugs from fixed from HEAD ).
>
> Thus, I have gone ahead and pushed r273182 w/ Neel’s patch out to about 80
> of the assorted AMD boxes in the production and dev pods that I care for.
> If end users see something, I’ll let you know, but I have a feeling they
> won’t.
>
> Again - Excellent work.
>
> cheers,
> -bp
>
> > On Oct 19, 2014, at 5:03 AM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw_at_digiware.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 16-10-2014 5:00, Anish Gupta wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> The projects/bhyve_svm branch is ready to be merged to HEAD.
> >>
> >> This branch contains patches to bhyve to enable it to work on AMD
> >> processors with SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions[1]. Pretty much any AMD
> >> processor since 2010 will have the features required by bhyve.
> >>
> >> bhyve on AMD supports (almost) all the features available with Intel
> >> [2]. All guest OSes supported on Intel are supported on AMD. All the
> >> bhyve-related utilities function similarly on both Intel and AMD
> >> platforms [3].
> >>
> >> The patch against HEAD revision 273066 is available for review and
> testing:
> >> https://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_svm.diff [Neel’s web
> directory]
> >>
> >> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
> >> [2]: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthru on AMD at this time
> >> [3]: bhyvectl has grown some processor-specific options
> >
> > Fetched the patch and compiled.
> > Now running: HEAD r273066M and I was able to throw at it all the tests
> > and images that in the past works. And perhaps even better.
> >
> > Great work.
> > --WjW
> >
> >
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