From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39599) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtWEI-0007tp-Gf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 06:27:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtWEH-0001I7-J3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 06:27:58 -0500 Received: from mail-wm1-f66.google.com ([209.85.128.66]:33651) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gtWEF-00018F-6r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 06:27:57 -0500 Received: by mail-wm1-f66.google.com with SMTP id h22so1123649wmb.0 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2019 03:27:48 -0800 (PST) References: <20190211163829.10297-1-pbonzini@redhat.com> <20190211181707.05e8596a.cohuck@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <36b82cce-a2e3-1c33-d8dd-c427274c8881@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 12:27:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190211181707.05e8596a.cohuck@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Kconfig: add documentation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Cornelia Huck Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, thuth@redhat.com, Mark Cave-Ayland , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com On 11/02/19 18:17, Cornelia Huck wrote: >> + >> +This domain-specific language is based on the Kconfig language that originated in the >> +Linux kernel, though it was heavily simplified and the handling of dependencies is >> +stricter in QEMU. >> + >> +Unlike Linux, there is no user interface to edit the configuration, which is instead >> +specified in per-target files under the ``default-configs/`` directory of the >> +QEMU source tree. This is because, unlike Linux, configuration and dependencies can be >> +treated as a black box when building QEMU; the default configuration that QEMU >> +ships with should be okay in almost all cases. > So this is only about devices and friends, and not about cpu features > etc.? > For now it is... Ideas are welcome on extensions to the mechanism; for now it is only about what default-configs/ has always covered, just better. :) Paolo