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| author | Michael Galassi <michael@galassi.us> | 2024-03-06 14:49:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> | 2024-05-04 13:18:15 +0000 |
| commit | 76f866f0f696e784b2c01711da2e8fa3f35264fe (patch) | |
| tree | 72ff8f5c912a91c672acaca379b013766d555a00 | |
| parent | cecda19fd6bf54f0d009b54ea8b092745d607443 (diff) | |
| download | src-stable/13.tar.gz src-stable/13.zip | |
vmm.4: Add verbiage about need to load module from loader.confstable/13
PR: 277530
MFC after: 1 week
Co-authored-by: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
(cherry picked from commit d0168b32bc67033414e43f07eff2a4e850652c29)
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/vmm.4 | 15 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/vmm.4 b/share/man/man4/vmm.4 index fbbd5fc8b300..11c2d4bb0ed4 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/vmm.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/vmm.4 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd October 12, 2023 +.Dd March 6, 2024 .Dt VMM 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -70,6 +70,19 @@ See the .Sx EXAMPLES section below for sample usage. .Pp +Note that +.Nm vmm +must be given first the right of refusal to all +.Xr pci 4 +devices it may need to claim. +As a result, the +.Nm vmm +kernel module almost certainly needs to be loaded from +.Xr loader.conf 5 +rather than by adding it to +.Va kld_list in +.Xr rc.conf 5 . +.Pp A large number of PCI device entries may require a string longer than the 128-character limit of .Xr loader.conf 5 |