From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Vrabel Subject: Re: [RFC v1 3/8] xen: drivers: add XEN_FRONTEND and fold front end drivers under them Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:01:52 +0000 Message-ID: <54DC8820.4030205@citrix.com> References: <1423720996-3332-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> <1423720996-3332-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YLrXO-0001Hi-8F for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 11:02:26 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1423720996-3332-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: jgross@suse.com, mcgrof@suse.com, david.vrabel@citrix.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 12/02/15 06:03, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" > > Fold Xen front end drivers under their own Kconfig entry. > You may want to for example only enable domU guests with > pv-drivers. > > While at it make HVC_XEN_FRONTEND select HVC_XEN. [...] > --- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig > @@ -83,6 +83,16 @@ config XEN_BACKEND > Support for backend device drivers that provide I/O services > to other virtual machines. > > +config XEN_FRONTEND > + bool "Frontend driver support" > + select XEN > + select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND > + default y > + help > + Support for frontend device drivers for Xen. You want to enable > + this if you want to run Xen guests. You can for instance enable > + domU guests with pv-drivers. XEN_FRONTEND should appear before XEN_BACKEND. David