socsvn commit: r288087 - in soc2015/mihai/bhyve-on-arm-head/sys/arm: conf include vmm

[Mihai Carabas]

Hi Andrew,


> Why not use virtio? On arm64 I added the following to the model
> parameters in DS-5:
> -C cluster.dcache-state_modelled=0 -C cluster.icache-state_modelled=0
> -C motherboard.virtioblockdevice.image_path="/path/to/image.raw"
>
> Disabling the d-cache is important for virtio as it appears the virtio
> "hardware" is not cache-coherent.
>
> Thank you for the advice. I didn't have any reason not using the virtio.
We prefered from the begining to have as few external dependencies as
possible (bootstrapping FreeBSD on Armv7-CortexA15 was a lengthy process).

How did you specify the virtio device in the DTB file?

Thank you,
Mihai