[PATCH 02/17] Kconfig: Introduce CONFIG_XEN

Anastasiia Lukianenko Anastasiia_Lukianenko at epam.com
Fri Jul 3 14:42:09 CEST 2020


Hi Simon,

On Thu, 2020-07-02 at 21:50 -0600, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Anastasiia,
> 
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 10:30, Anastasiia Lukianenko <
> vicooodin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> > 
> > Introduce CONFIG_XEN to make U-Boot could be used as bootloader
> > for a virtual machine.
> > 
> > Without bootloader, we could successfully boot up android on XEN,
> > but
> > we need need bootloader to support A/B, dm verify and etc.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan at nxp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <
> > oleksandr_andrushchenko at epam.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Anastasiia Lukianenko <
> > anastasiia_lukianenko at epam.com>
> > ---
> >  Kconfig | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Kconfig b/Kconfig
> > index 8f3fba085a..67f773d3a6 100644
> > --- a/Kconfig
> > +++ b/Kconfig
> > @@ -69,6 +69,13 @@ config CC_COVERAGE
> >           Enabling this option will pass "--coverage" to gcc to
> > compile
> >           and link code instrumented for coverage analysis.
> > 
> > +config XEN
> > +       bool "Select U-Boot be run as a bootloader for XEN Virtual
> > Machine"
> > +       default n
> 
> Not needed

Ok, will remove.

> 
> > +       help
> > +         Enabling this option will make U-Boot be run as a
> > bootloader
> > +         for XEN Virtual Machine.
> 
> Can you please add a few more details. What is XEN? URL? Also what
> does this actually do? Add some features to talk to XEN? It really
> needs more info and perhaps a pointer to some docs.

I have number of links and explanation in the cover-letter,
so I’ll paste some of that here in the next version.

> 
> > +
> >  config DISTRO_DEFAULTS
> >         bool "Select defaults suitable for booting general purpose
> > Linux distributions"
> >         select AUTO_COMPLETE
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> > 
> 
> Regards,
> Simon

Regards,
Anastasiia


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