There was one attempt a year ago done by me to drop HAL [1] but it was
never resolved. There was another time when Dan suggested to drop HAL
driver [2] but it was decided to keep it around in case device
assignment will be implemented for FreeBSD and the fact that
virt-manager uses node device driver [3].
I checked git history and code and it doesn't look like bhyve supports
device assignment so from that POV it should not block removing HAL.
The argument about virt-manager is not strong as well because libvirt
installed from FreeBSD packages doesn't have HAL support so it will not
affect these users as well [4].
The only users affected by this change would be the ones compiling
libvirt from GIT on FreeBSD.
I looked into alternatives and there is libudev-devd package on FreeBSD
but unfortunately it doesn't work as it doesn't list any devices when
used with libvirt. It provides libudev APIs using devd.
I also looked into devd directly and it provides some APIs but there are
no APIs for device monitoring and events so that would have to be
somehow done by libvirt.
Main motivation for dropping HAL support is to replace libdbus with GLib
dbus implementation and it cannot be done with HAL driver present in
libvirt because HAL APIs heavily depends on symbols provided by libdbus.
[1] <https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-May/msg00203.html>
[2] <https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00992.html>
[3] <https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg00994.html>
[4] <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/libvirt/Makefile?view=markup>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Use https: links for websites that support them.
The URIs which are used as namespace identifiers
are left alone.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
Some of the node device xml schema was documented in drvnodedev.html.in
rather than in formatnode.html.in. Move all of the schema documentation
to formatnode.html.in and provide reference links from the
drvnodedev.html.in page.
Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
The HTML5 doctype is simply
<!DOCTYPE html>
no DTD is present because HTML5 is no longer defined as an
extension of SGML.
XSL has no way to natively output a doctype without a public
or system identifier, so we have to use an <xsl:text> hack
instead.
See also
https://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/#doctype-declaration
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
The 'name' attribute on <a...> elements is deprecated in favour
of the 'id' attribute which is allowed on any element. HTML5
drops 'name' support entirely.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
There's lot more to document about the nodedev driver, besides PCI and
SR-IOV (even this might need to be extended), but let's start small-ish
and at least have a page for it linked from the drivers.html.
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
