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

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

> 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? FreeBSD can do it, Linux has PV drivers by default AFAIK, so why can’t we?

—Benny.