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author | Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> | 2020-08-06 12:42:45 +0300 |
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committer | Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com> | 2020-08-14 09:46:40 -0400 |
commit | 751897301da832f7fa3e89efcf15e54bf7c0ff84 (patch) | |
tree | d1eec540ec49e5a342894c6b10af722c2e6285ac | |
parent | 824ed85b77da741a77fa34c8887c37c5151a15a3 (diff) |
Kconfig: Introduce CONFIG_XEN
Introduce CONFIG_XEN to make U-Boot could be used as bootloader
for a virtual machine.
Without bootloader, we could successfully boot up android on XEN, but
we need need bootloader to support A/B, dm verify and etc.
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Andrushchenko <oleksandr_andrushchenko@epam.com>
Signed-off-by: Anastasiia Lukianenko <anastasiia_lukianenko@epam.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Kconfig | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -105,6 +105,24 @@ config CC_COVERAGE config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null) +config XEN + bool "Select U-Boot be run as a bootloader for XEN Virtual Machine" + help + Enabling this option will make U-Boot be run as a bootloader + for XEN [1] Virtual Machine. + + Xen is a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or a type-1 hypervisor with support + for para-virtualization. Xen can organize the safe execution of several + virtual machines on the same physical system with performance close to + native. It is used as the basis for a number of different commercial and + open source applications, such as: server virtualization, Infrastructure + as a Service (IaaS), desktop virtualization, security applications, + embedded and hardware appliances. + Xen has a special VM called Domain-0 that runs the Dom0 kernel and allows + Xen to use the device drivers for the Domain-0 kernel by default. + + [1] - https://xenproject.org/ + config DISTRO_DEFAULTS bool "Select defaults suitable for booting general purpose Linux distributions" select AUTO_COMPLETE |