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

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

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

From: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Cc: 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 15:46:45 +0200

 > 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.
 >=20
 > 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=E2=80=99t we?
 
 =E2=80=94Benny.=