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Nice improvements in boot speed. Perhaps a little blurb / intro / summary would be helpful to the post to help with understanding the achievements made.

Did the patches ever make it into Firecracker for booting FreeBSD as a guest? I looked back at the paper trail and it seemed like it may have stalled.

Does anyone know?

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Things stalled; there were a couple outstanding bugs (one I know has now been fixed, not sure about the other) and I had to take over FreeBSD release engineering and didn't have time to follow up on the Firecracker bits.

I understand that NetBSD can boot in Firecracker using the same patches so I'm hoping they can resolve any remaining issues and prod the Firecracker developers into merging things.

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