[Acked] [PATCH] [U/master-next] [Config] armhf: missing VIRTIO_[BALLOON|MMIO] support

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu Dec 4 11:28:44 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 10:14:49AM +0100, Paolo Pisati wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1396470
> 
> VIRTIO_BALOON is a driver that supports increasing and decreasing the amount
> of memory within a KVM guest, while VIRTIO_MMIO provides support for memory
> mapped virtio platform device driver.
> 
> Both of them were built-in in Trusty while Utopic is missing them
> (thus it's a regression).
> 
> Moreover, when VIRTIO_MMIO is missing, other drivers like VIRTIO_NET and VIRTIO_BLOCK
> have to resort using an emulated device with sensible performance degradation.
> 
> Proposing for Utopic/master-next.
> 
> Paolo Pisati (1):
>   UBUNTU: [Config] armhf: VIRTIO_[BALLOON|MMIO]=y
> 
>  debian.master/config/amd64/config.common.amd64     |    2 --
>  debian.master/config/arm64/config.common.arm64     |    2 --
>  debian.master/config/armhf/config.common.armhf     |    2 --
>  debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu          |    2 ++
>  debian.master/config/i386/config.common.i386       |    2 --
>  debian.master/config/powerpc/config.common.powerpc |    2 --
>  debian.master/config/ppc64el/config.common.ppc64el |    2 --
>  7 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 

Consolidates config in common with everything else, testing looks good.

Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>

-apw




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