bsd-user switched to supporting a single BSD compiled in 2022. We've
only built on FreeBSD since 2021. The NetBSD and OpenBSD support in
bsd-user, even when a hacked meson was used, hasn't compiled in years
due to bitrot (the last time I tried it was early 2023, and it failed
then due to easily correctable reasons).
In 2018 I tried to connect with the NetBSD efforts to get bsd-user
working there, but they didn't get beyond a few emails. I contacated the
OpenBSD people and they said at that time they'd not used user-mode in
years. I'd kept the code in the tree on the off chance it would allow
this work to continue, but there's been nothing contributed to either
bsd-user/netbsd or bsd-user/openbsd since the initial import in 2008,
apart from the work I did with FreeBSD to separate the BSD-specific
requirements out in 2021. What's there now is so badly bitrotted it
would take a very large effort to make it work.
It's time to give up, at least with the current code. This series
deletes the netbsd and openbsd code in bsd-user. I do plan on still
trying to keep the bsd split, with some common code for the 4.4BSD
interfaces that are still around (not many: most system calls have
evolved independently since the late 90s). And I do remain open to
working with people to make netbsd and/or openbsd support in
bsd-user. As it stands now, there's code I'd like to merge from
the qemu-bsd-user fork that this code is in the way of.
Signed-off-by: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
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Warner Losh (3):
freebsd: FreeBSD 15 has native inotify
bsd-user: Remove the openbsd-specific code
bsd-user: Remove NetBSD supprot
bsd-user/netbsd/host-os.h | 25 ---
bsd-user/netbsd/os-strace.h | 1 -
bsd-user/netbsd/strace.list | 145 --------------
bsd-user/netbsd/syscall_nr.h | 373 -----------------------------------
bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_elf.h | 148 --------------
bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_siginfo.h | 82 --------
bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_signal.h | 69 -------
bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_stack.h | 56 ------
bsd-user/netbsd/target_os_thread.h | 25 ---
bsd-user/openbsd/host-os.h | 25 ---
bsd-user/openbsd/os-strace.h | 1 -
bsd-user/openbsd/strace.list | 187 ------------------
bsd-user/openbsd/syscall_nr.h | 225 ---------------------
bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_elf.h | 148 --------------
bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_siginfo.h | 82 --------
bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_signal.h | 69 -------
bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_stack.h | 56 ------
bsd-user/openbsd/target_os_thread.h | 25 ---
bsd-user/qemu.h | 16 --
bsd-user/strace.c | 34 ----
bsd-user/syscall_defs.h | 23 ---
meson.build | 16 +-
22 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1822 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 0b91040d23dc8820724a60c811223b777f3bc6b7
change-id: 20260206-bsd-user-rm-openbsd-netbsd-fd4f0fa3329e
Best regards,
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Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>