[PATCH] powerpc: Add KVM guest defconfig
    Satheesh Rajendran 
    sathnaga at linux.vnet.ibm.com
       
    Fri Nov  9 20:59:26 AEDT 2018
    
    
  
On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 04:23:07PM -0200, Breno Leitao wrote:
> hi Satheesh,
> 
> On 11/08/2018 03:08 AM, sathnaga at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/configs/guest.config
> > @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y
> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI=y
> > +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO=y
> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y
> > +CONFIG_NET_FAILOVER=y
> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=y
> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO=y
> > +CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y
> > +CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y
> > +CONFIG_EPAPR_PARAVIRT=y
> > +CONFIG_XFS_FS=y
> 
> Why a guest kernel needs to have XFS integrated in the core image? I am
> wondering if it is a requirement from another CONFIG_ option.
Idea is to have a working config which would boot guest without initramfs,
other FS(like EXT4) is already integrated in the core image, 
thought this would be helpful for distributions, which default XFS as root disk.
Hope this should be fine?
> 
> If it is not a strict requirement from another config, I think we can keep it
> as defined at ppc64_defconfig, which defines it as module (CONFIG_XFS_FS=m).
> 
> Thanks for this patch, very useful.
Thanks Breno! :-)
-Satheesh.
> Breno
> 
    
    
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