[PATCH] powerpc: Add KVM guest defconfig

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Nov 12 23:24:08 AEDT 2018


Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> 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.

Maybe we should switch XFS_FS to Y in ppc64_defconfig ?

cheers


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