8.x and virtio?

[Bryan Venteicher]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller at hostileadmin.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Robert Blayzor <rblayzor.bulk at inoc.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 24, 2014, at 7:46 AM, Rick Miller <vmiller at hostileadmin.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there significant effort involved with merging the virtio code from
> a
> > 9
> > > or 10 branch into an 8 branch?  Special considerations?
> >
> >
> > Unless you're hoping for an 8.5 release, which is unlikely, I'd expect
> not.
> >
> > The path of least resistance is to upgrade.
> >
>
> I don't expect the community to take this up.  I'm most interested in the
> level of effort to do so internally if we were so inclined.  Would it be a
> simple merge of the code from any 9 or 10 branch into a private, internal 8
> branch or is it a more complicated process requiring a multitude of
> considerations?
>
>
​Assuming you're close to 8-STABLE, I'd expect it not to be too much to
work to run newer VirtIO code. There's several changes that I still need to
MFC to 9, since it was in a freeze for the 9.3 release when I was MFC'ing
to 10. I should get that done in the next few weeks.

Due to pending EOL and my limited time, I've stopped MFC'ing new features
to 8. I'm not aware of any bugs​ in the 8-STABLE code though.



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> Rick Miller
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