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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-22 10:55:21 +1000
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-10-23 15:49:47 +1000
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Normalize config options for guest support
1) Group all the "guest OS" support options together, under a PARAVIRT_GUEST menu. 2) Make those options select CONFIG_PARAVIRT, as suggested by Andi. 3) Make kconfig help titles consistent. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/Kconfig38
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/Kconfig5
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index f6e44fc5283c..3523e82c8412 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -227,28 +227,46 @@ config SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
If in doubt, say "Y".
config PARAVIRT
- bool "Paravirtualization support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ bool
depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)
help
- Paravirtualization is a way of running multiple instances of
- Linux on the same machine, under a hypervisor. This option
- changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
- under a hypervisor, improving performance significantly.
- However, when run without a hypervisor the kernel is
- theoretically slower. If in doubt, say N.
+ This changes the kernel so it can modify itself when it is run
+ under a hypervisor, potentially improving performance significantly
+ over full virtualization. However, when run without a hypervisor
+ the kernel is theoretically slower and slightly larger.
+
+menuconfig PARAVIRT_GUEST
+ bool "Paravirtualized guest support"
+ help
+ Say Y here to get to see options related to running Linux under
+ various hypervisors. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
+
+ If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled.
+
+if PARAVIRT_GUEST
source "arch/x86/xen/Kconfig"
config VMI
- bool "VMI Paravirt-ops support"
- depends on PARAVIRT
+ bool "VMI Guest support"
+ select PARAVIRT
+ depends on !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)
help
VMI provides a paravirtualized interface to the VMware ESX server
(it could be used by other hypervisors in theory too, but is not
at the moment), by linking the kernel to a GPL-ed ROM module
provided by the hypervisor.
+config LGUEST_GUEST
+ bool "Lguest guest support"
+ select PARAVIRT
+ depends on !X86_PAE
+ help
+ Lguest is a tiny in-kernel hypervisor. Selecting this will
+ allow your kernel to boot under lguest. This option will increase
+ your kernel size by about 6k. If in doubt, say N.
+endif
+
config ACPI_SRAT
bool
default y
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
index 9df99e1885a4..fbfa55ce0d55 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/Kconfig
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
#
config XEN
- bool "Enable support for Xen hypervisor"
- depends on PARAVIRT && X86_CMPXCHG && X86_TSC && !NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES
+ bool "Xen guest support"
+ select PARAVIRT
+ depends on X86_CMPXCHG && X86_TSC && !NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES && !(X86_VISWS || X86_VOYAGER)
help
This is the Linux Xen port. Enabling this will allow the
kernel to boot in a paravirtualized environment under the