From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: remove unused Kconfig parameter Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 05:20:56 +0200 Message-ID: <20130710032056.GA14873@pd.tnic> References: <20130708192854.GF4927@phenom.dumpdata.com> <20130708193457.GA6926@u109add4315675089e695.ant.amazon.com> <51DB2134.9040909@zytor.com> <20130708205834.GA481@pd.tnic> <1373326534.1438.10.camel@x61.thuisdomein> <51DBDAB802000078000E37C1@nat28.tlf.novell.com> <20130709144840.GF24897@phenom.dumpdata.com> <20130709150554.GA27579@pd.tnic> <1382658288.20130710003458@eikelenboom.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1382658288.20130710003458@eikelenboom.it> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Sander Eikelenboom Cc: jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Matt Wilson , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Michael Opdenacker , x86@kernel.org, Paul Bolle , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com, Jan Beulich , "H. Peter Anvin" , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:34:58AM +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote: > Grub does this in it's update script to prevent adding a xen + kernel > combination that has no chance of booting when dom0 support has not > been configured in the kernel. That doesn't seem to be a unreasonable > thought. Actually, I don't see the problem - if there's no such support, then the boot fails - plain and simple. That's like not building in or adding into the initrd, support for your root filesystem - it is your own damn fault. It is not the bootloader's job to sanity check whether your kernel boots or not. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --