Re: port-xen/52389: NetBSD EC2 images should use HVM with PV drivers

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-xen/52389; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        port-xen-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-xen/52389: NetBSD EC2 images should use HVM with PV drivers
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:51:37 +0200

 On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:46:45PM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote:
 > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:30:01AM +0000, Abhinav Upadhyay wrote:
 > >> I asked Colin Percival how FreeBSD does this, he told me to simply
 > >> build an amd64 image instead of a xen image and upload it.
 > > 
 > > That doesn't make sense as there is no PV support for non-Xen kernels.
 > 
 > Is there something fundamental that prevents NetBSD from having PV drivers in a non-Xen kernel?
 
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