[PATCH v4 21/32] arm64: KVM: Build system integration
Paolo Bonzini
pbonzini at redhat.com
Wed May 22 04:45:08 EDT 2013
Il 22/05/2013 10:42, Catalin Marinas ha scritto:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:09:47PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Messaggio originale -----
>>> Da: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>>> A: "Marc Zyngier" <Marc.Zyngier at arm.com>
>>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org, kvmarm at lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm at vger.kernel.org, "Will Deacon"
>>> <Will.Deacon at arm.com>, pbonzini at redhat.com, gleb at redhat.com, "Christopher Covington" <cov at codeaurora.org>
>>> Inviato: Martedì, 21 maggio 2013 17:42:27
>>> Oggetto: Re: [PATCH v4 21/32] arm64: KVM: Build system integration
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:13:49PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig
>>> ...
>>>> +config KVM_ARM_VGIC
>>>> + bool
>>>> + depends on KVM_ARM_HOST && OF
>>>> + select HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
>>>> + ---help---
>>>> + Adds support for a hardware assisted, in-kernel GIC emulation.
>>>> +
>>>> +config KVM_ARM_TIMER
>>>> + bool
>>>> + depends on KVM_ARM_VGIC
>>>> + select HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP
>>>> + ---help---
>>>> + Adds support for the Architected Timers in virtual machines
>>>> +
>>>> +source drivers/virtio/Kconfig
>>>
>>> Shouldn't the above configs go to drivers/virtio/Kconfig as well (or
>>> drivers/virtio/arm/Kconfig)?
>>
>> virtio doesn't mean "virtual versions of devices that also exist in
>> hardware"; those are indeed in arch/ARCH/kvm. virtio is a specific bus
>> for paravirtualized devices. It is not KVM-specific and the code runs
>> in the guest (whereas arch/arm64/kvm/Kconfig is host code).
>
> You are right. What I meant was kvm/virt/arm/Kconfig (the place where
> the vgic and timer driver goes).
Ah yeah, that could make sense.
Paolo
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