Re: patch review: MPTABLE_LINUX_BUG_COMPAT
Emile `iMil' Heitor <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2025, Emile `iMil' Heitor wrote:
> Prior to MMIO-over-command-line integration, the following patch
> is needed. The Firecracker VMM doesn't have ACPI, either, it relies on
> MP tables. This patch allows IOAPIC to be detected by introducing a
> Linux-specific behavior expected by, at least, the Firecracker VMM.
> This issue was found by Colin Percival and described here:
> https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/freebsd-firecracker
> The patch is mostly a port of Colin's work which can be seen here:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/dev-commits-src-main/2022-October/010275.html
>
> The patch: https://imil.net/NetBSD/mptable.patch
Since there have been no objections to the patch and considering it
is pretty harmless yet mandatory for Firecracker compatibility, I'll
merge it into current next week unless anyone raises concerns before
then.
Cheers,
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Emile `iMil' Heitor <imil@{home.imil.net,NetBSD.org}> | https://imil.net