Re: [Qemu-devel] Large patch set advice

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:22 AM, Kamil Rytarowski <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 26.04.2018 10:11, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 25 April 2018 at 20:57, Warner Losh <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> I’ve foolishly volunteered to rebase all the changes that the bad-user
> >> mode folks have done to a recent master rev to get these changes
> upstreamed.
> >> A number of people have been working on this for a long time. It’s
> possible
> >> now to run almost any FreeBSD binary from all the architectures. We use
> it
> >> to do ‘native’ builds of tens of thousands of packages in a chroot (so
> >> building FreeBSD/arm packages on a FreeBSD amd64 box). The diffs are
> quite
> >> large (on the order of 42k lines), so I anticipate some bumps in moving
> >> this stuff upstream.
> >
> > So, first up, thanks for agreeing to do this. It sounds from your
> > mail like you're already pretty well aware of the usual pitfalls
> > with this kind of work, and I don't really have much to add that's
> > QEMU specific that nobody else has said already.
> >
> > 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'm looking forward to see it updated for FreeBSD first. We can
> reschedule NetBSD part for later.
>
> Feel free to CC me for code review.
>

Sure. Will do. Do you have NetBSD patches against the git repo as well?

Warner