Colin Percival

Results 9 issues of Colin Percival

# Feature Request During the FreeBSD boot process, it resets network devices. (Why? Good question.) When running in Firecrackers, this means resetting the vtnet device. ## Describe the desired solution...

Priority: Low

# Feature Request It would be nice to support the PVH direct boot API. Guest operating systems which have support for Xen/PVH will find this much easier than trying to...

Roadmap: Tracked
Type: Enhancement

# Describe the bug The memory map provided by Firecracker is ``` [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009fbff] usable [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003fffffff] usable ``` In other words, the first...

Quality: Bug

# Describe the bug Just tripped over this with FreeBSD: I need to set hw.broken_txfifo=1 to make the UART work once we enter userland in a Firecracker VM. This is...

Type: Bug
Priority: Low

# Describe the bug The MP Configuration Table Header (per Intel Multiprocessing Specification) includes fields "BASE TABLE LENGTH" and "ENTRY COUNT". The former specifies the length of the table (header...

Quality: Bug

I'd love to see a `partial-wildcard.badssl.com` host which has a certificate for `p*.badssl.com`, so that I could easily test OpenSSL's X509_CHECK_FLAG_NO_PARTIAL_WILDCARDS functionality. No idea how much work would be involved...

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needs-prod-cert

Tarsnap now ships with a zsh completion script, and we now have tooling to make sure that it stays up to date with new options. Is there any reason to...

# Describe the bug When FreeBSD boots in Firecracker, it disables LRO features because it doesn't want to allocate 64 kB buffers. (Maybe this should change in FreeBSD, but that's...

Priority: Medium

The 0x40000010 CPUID leaf is used to announce TSC and local APIC frequencies to VM guests; this allows them to boot faster by bypassing clock calibration loops. ## Changes In...