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

[Doug Goldstein]

sorry for the confusion. This replaces patch 3 and provides better wording.


On 1/5/17 11:32 AM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Provided some basic documentation on how to use the xen recipe properly.
> ---
>  recipes-extended/xen/README | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 recipes-extended/xen/README
> 
> diff --git a/recipes-extended/xen/README b/recipes-extended/xen/README
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..3686530
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/recipes-extended/xen/README
> @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> +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. Similarly
> +to how the recipe for busybox works, you can provide a .config as a defconfig
> +to override the default configuration of the hypervisor. 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.
> 


-- 
Doug Goldstein

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