about virtio driver porting from FreeBSD

[Tim Bisson]

Hi,

Actually the drivers you linked to are completely ported from NetBSD and 
under the BSD license, so they can be used. The non-BSD licensed virtio 
drivers that were ported from FreeBSD have been removed from gitorious.

There's also a different copy of FreeBSD virtio drivers that are under 
the BSD license, which you could use as a reference for your work if you 
want:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-January/022045.html

The NetBSD driver code also has balloon driver at nbsd_code/viomb.c, 
which you could also implement.

Tim

On 2/27/11 5:34 PM, Pratyush Kshirsagar wrote:
Yes, you are right but I did some work porting virtio network driver 
from NetBSD before we moved forward to port it from FreeBSD.
Attached is the partly done code.
The other basic calls needed for block and network drivers are kept 
same by Tim and me so that we don't do lot of cleaning and book 
keeping stuff.

The working code is in "net" directory and not the nbsd_code.
you need to make the outer dir and then the do make in net.
use kldload -v ./virtio.ko followed by kldload -v ./virtio_net.ko
Thus when you use dmesg it will show the messages during the netword 
device probe and attach() with the network device number/id.

You can mail me for further information.

- Pratyush Kshirsagar.

2011/2/27 Stéphanie Ouillon <stephanie at minet.net 
<mailto:stephanie at minet.net>>

    Hello,

    I've read the posts on the DragonFly BSD Digest site about virtio,
    but I have some questions about it.
    A virtual network driver was ported from NetBSD, using some
    FreeBSD code that wasn't supposed to be public under a BSD
    license. So for the moment, the code that is published on
    gitorious
    (http://gitorious.org/virtio-drivers/virtio-drivers/trees/master)
    can't be used at all ? Can somebody tell me more about that ?
    Thanks !
    Regards,

    Stéphanie