Re: [PATCH 0/7] bsd-user: remove bitrotted NetBSD and OpenBSD bsd-user support

[Warner Losh]

These haven't even compiled in years. Last time I polled the NetBSD and OpenBSD communities they weren't using this and had no plans to fix.

I'd be happy to work with anybody that wanted to fix that state of affairs.

Warner

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 7:00 AM Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org> wrote:

Dear Qemu folks,

I'll throw it in the NetBSD group for feedback.

With regards,
Reinoud

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 08:18:26AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> The NetBSD and OpenBSD support in bsd-user hasn't built since before the meson
> conversion. It's also out of sync with many of the recent changes in the
> bsd-user fork and has just been removed there. Remove it from master for the
> same reasons: it generates a number of false positives with grep and has
> increasingly gotten in the way. The bsd-user fork code is much more advanced,
> and even it doesn't compile and is out of date. Remove this from both
> branches. If others wish to bring it up to speed, I'm happy to help them.
>
> Warner Losh (7):
>   bsd-user: Remove obsolete prototypes
>   bsd-user: Remove netbsd system call inclusion and defines
>   bsd-user: Remove netbsd system call tracing
>   bsd-user: Remove openbsd system call inclusion and defines
>   bsd-user: Remove openbsd system call tracing
>   bsd-user: Remove netbsd directory
>   bsd-user: Remove openbsd directory
>
>  bsd-user/netbsd/host-os.h            |  25 --
>  bsd-user/netbsd/os-strace.h          |   1 -
>  bsd-user/netbsd/strace.list          | 145 -----------
>  bsd-user/netbsd/syscall_nr.h         | 373 ---------------------------
>  bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_elf.h      | 147 -----------
>  bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_siginfo.h  |  82 ------
>  bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_signal.h   |  69 -----
>  bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_stack.h    |  56 ----
>  bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_thread.h   |  25 --
>  bsd-user/openbsd/host-os.h           |  25 --
>  bsd-user/openbsd/os-strace.h         |   1 -
>  bsd-user/openbsd/strace.list         | 187 --------------
>  bsd-user/openbsd/syscall_nr.h        | 225 ----------------
>  bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_elf.h     | 147 -----------
>  bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_siginfo.h |  82 ------
>  bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_signal.h  |  69 -----
>  bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_stack.h   |  56 ----
>  bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_thread.h  |  25 --
>  bsd-user/qemu.h                      |  16 --
>  bsd-user/strace.c                    |  34 ---
>  bsd-user/syscall_defs.h              |  29 +--
>  21 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1818 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/host-os.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/os-strace.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/strace.list
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/syscall_nr.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_elf.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_siginfo.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_signal.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_stack.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_thread.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/host-os.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/os-strace.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/strace.list
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/syscall_nr.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_elf.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_siginfo.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_signal.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_stack.h
>  delete mode 100644 bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_thread.h
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>