On 26.04.2018 10:11, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 25 April 2018 at 20:57, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> 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. > thanks > -- PMM >
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