On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
