re: port-sparc64/57290: qemu-system-sparc64 virtio-blk-pci device doesn't work on NetBSD 10.0 - booting halts

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sparc64/57290; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: port-sparc64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: re: port-sparc64/57290: qemu-system-sparc64 virtio-blk-pci device doesn't work on NetBSD 10.0 - booting halts
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 04:34:56 +1100

 i'm able to reproduce this issue.
 
 > It seems some discussion was had recently on the qemu and netbsd mailing=
  list about it, see here
 > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2023/01/25/msg003184.html
 > and here
 > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-10/msg01031.html
 
 i tried implmenting this for sparc64 yesterday.  it didn't help,
 for either the blk or network PRs you filed.
 
 the netbsd-10 version is a hack since there's no way to pass the
 relevant feature bit in our virtio APIs there (uint32_t has been
 widened to uint64_t in -current.)
 
 
 .mrg.