From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, penberg@kernel.org,
levinsasha928@gmail.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
bp@suse.de, fengguang.wu@intel.com,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 17:10:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5183D357.8000204@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130503150818.GC3433@pd.tnic>
On 3.5.2013 17:08, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 07:54:36AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Could you alternately have a kvm_guest.config that should always work
>> for you?
>
> I could, and I do. The idea, however, is to have this option upstream
> so that people don't have to go search for every relevant option for
> running the kernel a kvm guest.
>
> Which reminds me: Pekka had a 'make kvmconfig' functionality in
> the kvmtool too. Which, TBH, is even better than having a Kconfig
> option with a bunch of selects. So, come to think of it, after all
> the controversy with such an option, having a 'make kvmconfig' do
> scripts/config -e <option> where <option> is in that list we select
> would be much better.
>
> This won't break randconfigs at all, btw. :-)
You still risk that you miss some new dependency, but for a normal
configs as a base, this won't be an issue in most cases. Whether this is
implemented as a series of scripts/config calls or if there is a
kvm_guest.config does not matter much, as long as randconfig does not
see it ;).
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-03 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 18:19 [PATCH] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for a kvm-bootable kernel Borislav Petkov
2013-04-12 20:08 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-04-14 9:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-04-14 11:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-16 16:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-17 0:38 ` Sasha Levin
2013-04-17 7:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-17 23:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-04-18 9:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-18 9:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-04-18 10:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-18 13:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-04-19 10:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-26 0:05 ` [PATCH -v2] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for kvm guest kernel Borislav Petkov
2013-04-26 6:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-04-26 9:51 ` [PATCH -v2.1] " Borislav Petkov
2013-04-30 16:49 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 19:53 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 20:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 21:00 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 21:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 21:30 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 21:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 22:09 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 22:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 22:37 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 23:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 23:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-01 23:09 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 23:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-01 23:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-02 19:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 19:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-01 23:16 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 23:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 0:07 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-02 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 7:16 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-01 13:19 ` [PATCH -v2.1] x86: Add a Kconfig shortcut for kvm guest kernel Marcelo Tosatti
2013-05-01 23:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 17:23 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/kconfig: Add a Kconfig shortcut for building working KVM guest kernels tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-05-02 18:06 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-02 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-02 18:19 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-02 19:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 20:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 14:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 14:54 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-05-03 15:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 15:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-03 15:10 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2013-05-03 15:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-03 16:53 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-03 17:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-03 17:19 ` David Rientjes
2013-05-03 19:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-05-03 23:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-22 14:46 ` [PATCH -v2] x86: Add a kvm config file Borislav Petkov
2013-05-22 17:55 ` Pekka Enberg
2013-05-28 13:39 ` [tip:x86/platform] x86, platform, kvm, kconfig: Turn existing .config's into KVM-capable configs tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 8:04 ` [PATCH] x86/platform: Add kvmconfig to the phony targets Borislav Petkov
2013-06-23 11:02 ` [tip:x86/platform] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
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