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Authored by andrew on Mar 15 2023, 2:18 PM.
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Summary

To allow bhyve manage the virtual timer while in a guest have FreeBSD
use the virtual timer only when bhyve will be unavailable due to not
starting at EL2 where the hypervisor switcher will run.

Sponsored by: Arm Ltd

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Assuming we know the res is always non-null in these cases, I think we're good. I kinda think they should be, but that's just from a quick read.

sys/arm/arm/generic_timer.c
664

only question: are we guaranteed that these timers will be around in this case? Similar below...

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 15 2023, 2:55 PM
sys/arm/arm/generic_timer.c
664

We require the virtual and physical timer interrupts as they are marked non-optional in arm_tmr_irq_defs

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