On 12/28/25 09:51, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
> This series includes a minimal number of changes to allow running
> bhyve arm64 guests.
> 
> Bhyve on amd64 and arm64 has slightly different sets of supported
> devices, and a different syntax for some devices. Specifically,
> bootrom and consoles are configured without the LPC controller,
> used for amd64, but using the "-o" argument, i.e. "-o bootrom=<bootrom>"
> and "-o console=<console>".
> 
> This series moves quite a significant amount of test data files.
> I tried to isolate that into separate commit with a minimal
> set of related changes.
> 
> While this series enables running arm64, there are more items to work
> on:
> 
>  - On arm64, bhyve normally uses
>    /usr/local/share/u-boot/u-boot-bhyve-arm64/u-boot.bin
>    bootrom. Autofill code should be updated to automatically use
>    that if no path was specified.
>  - Bhyve capabilities probing uses `bhyve -s 0,<device>` and parsing
>    error message to see if a device is supported. Using `bhyve -s help`
>    that lists supported devices should be more accurate and robust.
>  - UTC clock is not supported on bhyve/arm64. I wasn't able to figure
>    out yet how to make libvirt not using it by default, so currently
>    arm64 guests require <clock offset='localtime'/>
> 
> I plan to address these issues in a separate series.

WFM, BUT even this work you posted deserves a NEWS.rst entry ;-)
Feel free to add it as a 10th patch.

> 
> Roman Bogorodskiy (9):
>   bhyve: capabilities: fix for arm64
>   bhyve: tests: support arch-dependent tests
>   bhyve: domain: require ISA controller on x86_64 only
>   bhyve: command: handle arm64 console
>   bhyve: command: make -H and -P args amd64-only
>   bhyve: command: handle arm64 bootloader
>   bhyve: tests: prepare for arm64 xml2xml tests
>   bhyve: tests: add xml2xml arm64 tests
>   bhyve: report domain capabilities for arm64


>  301 files changed, 313 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <[email protected]>

Michal

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