Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v1 0/8] xen: kconfig changes

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:31:08AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 02/17/2015 01:25 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> >> <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As it is per our agreed upon changes we can in theory enable a
> >>> XEN_PVHVM system without XEN_PV or XEN_PVH. If this is indeed
> >>> desirable this poses an issue at build time
> >>
> >>
> >> And this also raises the question of whether or not we should make
> >> XEN_PVHVM a user selectable option, right now it is a def_bool and is
> >> therefore not human selectable. You can implicitly disable it by
> >> disabling PCI for example though. If we want that to be exposed to the
> >> user we can then enable some description of what that means, and the
> >> user will then be able to read / select / enable XEN_PV., XEN_PVHVM,
> >> XEN_PVH. Right now they'd only be able to select XEN_PV and/or
> >> XEN_PVH, XEN_PVHVM is implicit.
> >
> >
> > I think making XEN_PVHVM user selectable is okay.
> 
> OK I'll enable this then.

Please don't. We had bugs in the past because distros did not select
it (they made it an module) and the PV drivers were not loaded.

There should be an history in the git tree behind the desire to make
it non selectable.

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