svn commit: r359949 - head/usr.sbin/bhyve

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 08:30 -0400, Shawn Webb wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 01:58:51AM +0000, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > Author: cem
> > Date: Wed Apr 15 01:58:51 2020
> > New Revision: 359949
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359949
> > 
> > Log:
> >   bhyve(8): Add bootrom allocation abstraction
> >   
> >   To allow more general use of the bootrom region, separate initialization from
> >   allocation, and allocation from loading a file.
> >   
> >   The bootrom segment is the high 16MB of the low 4GB region.
> >   
> >   Each allocation in the segment creates a new mapping with specified protection.
> >   By default, allocation begins at the low end of the range.  However, the
> >   BOOTROM_ALLOC_TOP flag is provided to locate a provided bootrom in the high
> >   region it is expected to be in.
> >   
> >   The existing ROM-file loading code is refactored to use the new interface.
> >   
> >   Reviewed by:	grehan (earlier version)
> >   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24422
> 
> Hey Conrad,
> 
> Is there any way you'd have a change of heart and support MFC'ing? I'm
> sure many people, including myself, would be ever so grateful not to
> have to maintain their own MFC's of your work.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

There are multiple people involved in maintaining bhyve, you can ask
any of them (or, really, any committer at all) to MFC things.

-- Ian