Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:56:53 -0800 | Subject | Re: Adding VIRTIO to the multi_v7_defconfig | From | Peter Crosthwaite <> |
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On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 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
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