From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anastasiia Lukianenko Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 12:42:45 +0300 Subject: [RESEND PATCH v2 02/18] Kconfig: Introduce CONFIG_XEN In-Reply-To: <20200806094301.4999-1-vicooodin@gmail.com> References: <20200806094301.4999-1-vicooodin@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20200806094301.4999-3-vicooodin@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de From: Peng Fan Introduce CONFIG_XEN to make U-Boot could be used as bootloader for a virtual machine. Without bootloader, we could successfully boot up android on XEN, but we need need bootloader to support A/B, dm verify and etc. Signed-off-by: Peng Fan Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko Signed-off-by: Anastasiia Lukianenko --- Changes since v1: - remove "default n" option - add more detailes in "help" section Kconfig | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig index 566ca72c92..9a33b3814d 100644 --- a/Kconfig +++ b/Kconfig @@ -105,6 +105,24 @@ config CC_COVERAGE config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) +config XEN + bool "Select U-Boot be run as a bootloader for XEN Virtual Machine" + help + Enabling this option will make U-Boot be run as a bootloader + for XEN [1] Virtual Machine. + + Xen is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or a type-1 hypervisor with support + for para-virtualization. Xen can organize the safe execution of several + virtual machines on the same physical system with performance close to + native. It is used as the basis for a number of different commercial and + open source applications, such as: server virtualization, Infrastructure + as a Service (IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, + embedded and hardware appliances. + Xen has a special VM called Domain-0 that runs the Dom0 kernel and allows + Xen to use the device drivers for the Domain-0 kernel by default. + + [1] - https://xenproject.org/ + config DISTRO_DEFAULTS bool "Select defaults suitable for booting general purpose Linux distributions" select AUTO_COMPLETE -- 2.17.1