Re: [PATCH v2] virtio: kconfig: memory devices are PCI only

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 06.09.24 12:16, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Virtio memory devices rely on PCI BARs to expose the contents of memory.
> Because of this they cannot be used (yet) with virtio-mmio or virtio-ccw.
> In fact the code that is common to virtio-mem and virtio-pmem, which
> is in hw/virtio/virtio-md-pci.c, is only included if CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI
> is set.  Reproduce the same condition in the Kconfig file, only allowing
> VIRTIO_MEM and VIRTIO_PMEM to be defined if the transport supports it.
> 
> Without this patch it is possible to create a configuration with
> CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=n and CONFIG_VIRTIO_MEM=y, but that causes a
> linking failure.

I'll queue this to

https://github.com/davidhildenbrand/qemu.git mem-next

and drop it if someone beats me to up-streaming it :)

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb