Le 21/03/2025 à 08:48, Emile `iMil' Heitor a écrit :
Hey Jean-Yves!
Greetings!
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Jean-Yves Migeon (NetBSD) wrote: After some back and forth, mlelstv@ came with the most elegant idea: https://imil.net/NetBSD/has_lapic.patch Basically an #ifdef function translation, as the point is only to know if we have LAPIC support enabled in the kernel,
Brutal, but indeed works (:This "tests" whether LAPIC support is compiled in (instead of checking the PIC routines) though.
> which AFAIK is only false in Xen...And old buggy hardware (...) On which there is no risk you would load or run nvmm(4) on it.
but do we build nvmm module for Xen?
Nope (at least not yet) -- IMHO it has limited interest besides attempts at nesting hypervisors (which has its uses but quite niche)
Cheers! -- jym@