Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751647AbbK2W47 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:56:59 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:36157 "EHLO mail-wm0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751049AbbK2W45 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:56:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2788112.C4O6ljO5dG@wuerfel> References: <2788112.C4O6ljO5dG@wuerfel> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:56:53 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Adding VIRTIO to the multi_v7_defconfig From: Peter Crosthwaite To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Guenter Roeck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Maydell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1364 Lines: 37 On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 29 November 2015 14:18:24 Peter Crosthwaite wrote: >> >> I started a small project to test as many QEMU emulated ARM boards >> using the multi_v7 defconfig: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg00755.html >> >> One thing that came up was we cannot use the virt board as it relies >> on virtio hotplug and drivers to get block and network support. The >> defconfig is missing the drivers. Should we add the VIRTIO drivers to >> the defconfig to bring this into play? > > Yes, please send a patch, this is definitely useful. We normally ask > everyone to use loadable modules for newly enabled device drivers > in multi_v7_defconfig, but we might actually use built-in drivers > here if that would otherwise be the only module needed for booting. > So minimally I am looking for: CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI=y" CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK=y" CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y" As that gets you booted with network without needing initrd. I guess the rest of VIRTIO makes more sense as modules as follow up work? Regards, Peter > Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/