Re: [PATCH v3 RESEND] 2/2] x86, arm, platform, xen, kconfig: add xen defconfig helper

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Feb 10 2015 - 20:08:45 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 04:49:13PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This lets you build a kernel which can support xen dom0
> > or xen guests by just using:
> >
> > make xenconfig
> >
> > on both x86 and arm64 kernels. This also splits out the
> > options which are available currently to be built with x86
> > and 'make ARCH=arm64' under a shared config.
> >
> > Technically xen supports a dom0 kernel and also a guest
> > kernel configuration but upon review with the xen team
> > since we don't have many dom0 options its best to just
> > combine these two into one.
> >
>
> This doesn't work because neither CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST in
> arch/x86/configs/xen.config nor CONFIG_PARAVIRT in
> kernel/configs/xen.config get enabled.
>
> make kvmconfig does this appropriately.
>
> You can test this with make {allno,def}config; make xenconfig. Notice
> there's no difference with your patchset.

Thanks, I'll fix.

Luis
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