Re: HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD

From: Neel Natu <neelnatu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:20:47 -0700
Hi,

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

It will be MFCed to 10-STABLE but I don't have a specific time frame in mind.

I'll guess that it'll be towards the end of November but can be
accelerated if someone has a need for this in 10-STABLE sooner.

best
Neel

> 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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