Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.7-rc6

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/07/2016 11:17, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> If we want to avoid this one, we could make the inclusion of
> drivers/vhost/Kconfig from arch/arm/kvm/Kconfig depend on CONFIG_AEABI,
> or perhaps go further force-enable CONFIG_AEABI for ARMv6k and higher
> (cmpxchg64() is broken on OABI too), and only include vhost if KVM
> is enabled (KVM in turn requires ARMv7).

I don't think it is correct to include vhost only if KVM is enabled.
vhost is an implementation of virtio; it is usually used together with
KVM but there's no dependency between the two.

Paolo