Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/x86_64_defconfig: Enable the serial console | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Thu, 8 Oct 2020 11:31:27 -0700 |
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On 10/8/20 9:40 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 06:22:06PM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote: >> As part of KernelCI, we added a bunch of different x86 based Chromebooks >> to do test booting and runtime testing. It will be useful have serial >> support for these platforms in the default defconfig, as this, is the >> defconfig used by default for the different maintainer's tree. >> >> SERIAL_8250_DW is the actual support for the console, but to have >> support we need to enable X86_AMD_PLATFORM_DEVICE for specific AMD >> boards and MFD_INTEL for specific Intel boards. >> >> While here, also enable USB_RTL8152 config which enables a common >> USB-Ethernet adapter used very commonly in the KernelCI labs. > > To me defconfig sounds like the config which contains items which are > needed on the majority of x86 hardware out there.
to run in normal (or common) user mode(s).
Nothing to do with automated testing like syzbot or CI IMO.
> Are those which you enable that common and if not, why can't your build > supply a custom .config instead?
I suppose that we are lacking a definition of a defconfig, but again, IMO, these Kconfig symbols don't meet the need for normal users.
-- ~Randy
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