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authorMichael Galassi <michael@galassi.us>2024-03-06 14:49:21 +0000
committerMateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>2024-05-04 13:18:05 +0000
commit7de39f926cd0aac52f292a5e8bb7b065c891cd6d (patch)
tree8270d8be0478b515a406a48fe78d73705d3c0137
parent1d28a8566f33b1e1915f6162f98ffdbd8d3dc001 (diff)
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vmm.4: Add verbiage about need to load module from loader.confstable/14
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.415
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/vmm.4 b/share/man/man4/vmm.4
index cb3276a7d8f1..dfd7ad26fb98 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