Re: Proposal for better support of hypervisors and their synthetic drivers at boot-time

2013-06-19 Thread Larry Melia
John, Sorry for not responding earlier to your comments, but we’re at a point where we’re trying to get our VM drivers included with the current build. Your solution for dynamic loading sounds wonderful! Is this a simple change? And how can we help? Here’s an example of the modern, preferred way

Re: Proposal for better support of hypervisors and their synthetic drivers at boot-time

2013-05-29 Thread Larry Melia
Hi Alexander, Thanks for your help. I've been working on getting the dummy driver to load at boot time, but having some issues. After rereading your comments, however, I'm wondering if I'm overriding the correct driver. I've been trying to override the pci-ata driver, but should I be PCI bus drive

Re: Proposal for better support of hypervisors and their synthetic drivers at boot-time

2013-04-29 Thread John Baldwin
I know Alexander replied about the ATA bits already, but I wanted to reply to two of your other points below: On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:07:03 am Larry Melia wrote: > (1) Move the call to init_param1() (in sys/kern/subr_parm.c), which is used > for hypervisor detection, to an earlier point in

Re: Proposal for better support of hypervisors and their synthetic drivers at boot-time

2013-04-24 Thread Larry Melia
Thanks, Alexander, we'll try your approach. It seems very reasonable. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Alexander Motin wrote: > On 23.04.2013 17:07, Larry Melia wrote: > >> I’m on a team of developers working on synthetic device drivers for >> FreeBSD on Hyper-V. In late March, I briefly menti

Re: Proposal for better support of hypervisors and their synthetic drivers at boot-time

2013-04-23 Thread Alexander Motin
On 23.04.2013 17:07, Larry Melia wrote: I’m on a team of developers working on synthetic device drivers for FreeBSD on Hyper-V. In late March, I briefly mentioned (on this list) that we're trying to get our drivers included with the FreeBSD distribution. Also noted were some necessary patches to

Proposal for better support of hypervisors and their synthetic drivers at boot-time

2013-04-23 Thread Larry Melia
I’m on a team of developers working on synthetic device drivers for FreeBSD on Hyper-V. In late March, I briefly mentioned (on this list) that we're trying to get our drivers included with the FreeBSD distribution. Also noted were some necessary patches to the ATA driver. The changes are necessary