[arm64][bhyve] Hypervisor implementation proposal
Andrei Martin
andrei.cos.martin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 10:11:47 UTC 2020
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your response.
I have updated the revision by removing the armv7 support and host platform
support.
Andrei
On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 11:37 AM Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
>
> > The UPB team made a revision for the bhyve on arm/arm64 on
> phabricator[1].
> >
> > Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26976 <
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26976>
>
> Thanks for putting up the review: that is a sizeable amount of work.
>
> I'd suggest removing 32-bit host support from the review to reduce the
> size. Note that Linux/KVM has dropped 32-bit host support (see the
> thread at
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/kvm/cover/20200210141324.21090-1-maz@kernel.org/),
>
> and the same reasons would apply to FreeBSD.
> If there is interest it could be resurrected at a later time.
>
> The MI/MD split could be done independently of this. It has been
> talked about for a long while, so I'll commit to doing this in the
> existing amd64 codebase. The ARM work could then be rebased into that.
>
> Also, any host platform support, such as the ARM simulator or
> EspressoBin, could be split out since it's independent of the hypervisor
> portion.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>
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