On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:10 AM Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:21 AM Peter Maydell > wrote: > >> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 16:03, Warner Losh wrote: >> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:02 AM Daniel P. Berrangé >> 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. > Looking at the changes, it may be possible to get the first dozen or so into a recent tree. It's not until after that that the changes touch areas that have the high churn rate, but it may mean things like threaded apps may have issues... I'll see what I can do over the holidays. Warner