On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:21 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 16:03, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:02 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >> I don't recall what happened after that initial discussion about
> >> merging the new impl. Did Sean simply not have the time to invest
> >> in the merge ? I'll CC him here to see what opinion he has on the
> >> future of bsd-user in QEMU.
> >
> >
> > I've actually taken over for Sean Bruno managing this.
>
> > I'd love to hear from people ways that I can speed things up.
>
> There was a bit of discussion about this on #qemu IRC the other
> day, coincidentally. I think the conclusion we (upstream QEMU)
> came to was that we'd be happy with a "delete all of bsd-user
> and reinstate" approach, assuming that the "reinstate" part is
> in reasonably logical chunks and not one big "here's what we
> have all in one lump" patch.
>
> AIUI from IRC this is being primarily driven by FreeBSD and
> NetBSD/OpenBSD support is merely "we hope it is not broken
> by the delete-and-reinstate but it was probably broken anyway" ?
>

Yea, I don't think it actually works for anything non-trivial on the other
BSDs.

Warner