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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>, 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 14:18:46 -0400

 On Jul 19,  3:46pm, bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost (Benny Siegert) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: port-xen/52389: NetBSD EC2 images should use HVM with PV driv
 
 | > 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 AFA=
 | IK, so why can=E2=80=99t we?
 
 We need to write them :-)
 
 christos