On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 14:12 +0000, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:05:06AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> >
> > On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 22:13 +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> > > Source: linux
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > Tags: patch
> > >
> > > While testing device passthrough with a debian guest on a Cavium
> > > Thunder, I found that the virtual function(VF) driver for the built in
> > > nic is not available.
> > >
> > > Please enable CONFIG_THUNDER_NIC_VF in the debian kernel config.
> > So long as this hardware is part of specific SoCs, we should only
> > enable it for the CPU architectures used in those SoCs. That's arm64,
> > right? (Possibly also mips64, but we don't support Cavium MIPS SoCs at
> > all yet.)
>
>
> > Shouldn't we also enable CONFIG_THUNDER_NIC_{PF,BGX,RGX} along with
> > this?
>
> I've added these and other drivers used by cavium SoC in arm64 config change
> I posted[1]. I'm still in in process of refining the patch to make not change
> ABI, but seems almost any config option fails the configcheck for me :/
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/01/msg00178.html
There was a fix in 4.9.6 that changed symbol versions, but that was
avoidable. I've applied most of your requested changes in 4.9.6-1, and
prepared to bump ABI in the next upload. So all the rest can go in
now.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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