On 01.10.2019 11:17, Julien Grall wrote: > On 01/10/2019 00:21, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 30/09/2019 21:17, Julien Grall wrote: >>> My worry is this gate config gate nothing on Arm so the user may have >>> a false sense that it can be used (even though it is clearly BROKEN). >>> >>> Also the name is quite close to the CONFIG_HARDEN_PREDICTOR on Arm and >>> may confuse user. Although, I don't have a better name so far :/ >> >> The "depends on BROKEN" means it will never show up to a user in >> menuconfig, which is why it was only CC to x86, and not to rest. > > What's the long term plan for this option? Are you planning to remove it > completely or just the dependencies on BROKEN? > > My concern is if this option will ever become selectable then it will not > doing > what's expected on Arm. > > So, even if in principle it is arch agnostic, it feels to me this option > should > better be implemented in x86/Kconfig.
I don't think so, no. When BROKEN is to be removed, it ought to be replaced by a suitable "depends on HAVE_*", which Arm could choose to not select. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
