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configure: mark vhost-user Linux-only
authorStefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:11:21 +0000 (17:11 +0000)
committerMichael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:19:40 +0000 (09:19 -0500)
commitd88618f717f948d97ae6f4401b014e30d52c68ec
tree0bb79356315a052da4b30f3f019987c849834d93
parenteb6a388624ec40d9be5c965ad05531ef1b5f4eb3
configure: mark vhost-user Linux-only

The vhost-user protocol uses the Linux eventfd feature and is typically
connected to Linux kvm.ko ioeventfd and irqfd file descriptors. The
protocol specification in docs/interop/vhost-user.rst does not describe
how platforms without eventfd support work.

The QEMU vhost-user devices compile on other POSIX host operating
systems because eventfd usage is abstracted in QEMU. The libvhost-user
programs in contrib/ do not compile but we failed to notice since they
are not built by default.

Make it clear that vhost-user is only supported on Linux for the time
being. If someone wishes to support it on other platforms then the
details can be added to vhost-user.rst and CI jobs can test the feature
to prevent bitrot.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <20201110171121.1265142[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
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