On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 03:45:20PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 20 October 2015 15:51:05 Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > Should this be "select" or "depends on"? Not a blocker, can always be fixed in 4.4. > > We have lots of 'select ARM_GIC' in the tree for platforms that use one, using > 'depends on' will limit KVM support to being available only if at least one > of them is being used. > > The only platform I can think of that uses ARMv7ve without actually having > a GIC is BCM2836 (Raspberry Pi 2). Can we actually run KVM on a platform > like that? If so, 'depends on' might be better, otherwise let's stay with > 'select'. Yes you can, just without the VGIC and the timer - you have to emulate that in userspace. Samsung also has a broken platform where they integrated things incorrectly, so you cannot use the VGIC, but that platform support is out of tree, so I can't see if it uses the GIC in general or not. I'm a bit confused why using 'depends on' in this case helps anythign? (I know, I suck at dealing with the config system) Thanks, -Christoffer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
