[meta-virtualization] [PATCH 3/3] xen: add a README to provide info for users

Doug Goldstein cardoe at cardoe.com
Thu Jan 5 09:05:23 PST 2017


Provided some basic documentation on how to use the xen recipe properly.
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 recipes-extended/xen/README | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
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+Xen
+---
+
+For any issues with the xen recipes please make sure you CC cardoe at gentoo.org
+
+configuring the hypervisor
+--------------------------
+
+Since 4.7.0 Xen supports using Kconfig to configure the hypervisor and the
+Yocto recipe supports this similiarly to how busybox works. The easiest way
+for you to take advantage of this is to create a .config for Xen and then
+copy it to your Yocto layer as 'defconfig' inside of
+'recipes-extended/xen/files/' and then create a bbappend adding
+'file://defconfig' to your SRC_URI.
+
+security patches
+----------------
+
+The base recipe does not include security fixes that the Xen community releases
+as XSAs (http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/). The easiest way to include those is to
+drop patches in 'recipes-extened/xen/files' and create a bbappend adding those
+patches to SRC_URI and they will be applied. Alternatively you can override
+the SRC_URI to a git repo you provide that contains the patches.
-- 
2.10.2



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