[lunar:linux][PATCH] UBUNTU: [Config] Mark CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO built-in
Andrea Righi
andrea.righi at canonical.com
Mon Mar 13 20:40:10 UTC 2023
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 06:13:22PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> This enables initrd-less boot on generic kernel, enabling any Ubuntu
> installation to be lifted from any hardware and converted into a VM
> which will, even with corrupted initrd and missing modules, be able to
> boot by default. This is an extremly useful property to have on all
> ubuntu kernels. Separately, this also removes the need for linux-kvm
> kernel flavour, as all the changes it has are now incorporated into
> generic flavour & cloud-images.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.ledkov at canonical.com>
I really like this change. Few comments.
Don't we have any specific tracker for this?
> ---
> debian.master/config/annotations | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/debian.master/config/annotations b/debian.master/config/annotations
> index 03218fde35..02a08f4503 100644
> --- a/debian.master/config/annotations
> +++ b/debian.master/config/annotations
> @@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_DUMP note<'LP: #1343109'>
> CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_TRACE policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y'}>
> CONFIG_SCSI_IPR_TRACE note<'LP: #1343109'>
>
> -CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO policy<{'amd64': 'm', 'arm64': 'm', 'armhf': 'm', 'ppc64el': 'm', 'riscv64': 'm', 's390x': 'm'}>
> +CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y', 's390x': 'y'}>
> CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO note<'tech preview of new feature'>
^ Maybe it's worth updating also the comment here, something like:
CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO note<'required to provide initrd-less boot on VMs'>
>
> CONFIG_SECURITY_SAFESETID policy<{'amd64': 'y', 'arm64': 'y', 'armhf': 'y', 'ppc64el': 'y', 'riscv64': 'y', 's390x': 'y'}>
Thanks,
-Andrea
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