Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] kernel/configs: don't include PCI_QUIRKS in KVM guest configs

Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04T14:59:28Z

On 2020-08-04 15:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> writes:
>
>> On 2020-08-04 13:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> The VIRTIO_PCI support is an idealised PCI bus, we don't need a bunch
>>> of bloat for real world hardware for a VirtIO guest.
>>
>> Who says this guest will only have virtio devices?
>
> This is true - although what is the point of kvm_guest.config? We
> certainly turn on a whole bunch of virt optimised pathways with
> PARAVIRT
> and HYPERVISOR_GUEST along with the rest of VirtIO.

Most of which actually qualifies as bloat itself as far as KVM/arm64
is concerned...

M.
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