From ccc9a891df8f8d0af1732bb5bc00b20f39ba24e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:31:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Remove misleading / outdated section about other arches from README. --- README | 33 --------------------------------- 1 file changed, 33 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index e40570791..8e3fe932d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -378,39 +378,6 @@ Don't enable GCC warnings (ie. *don't* use './configure --enable-gcc-warnings'). -Note on using non-x86 architectures ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - -In theory libguestfs should work on non-x86 architectures. Usually if -it doesn't it's because qemu isn't available or cannot boot the -kernel. - -For ARM you will need to specify the exact machine type and CPU -variant that is required to boot the Linux kernel (there's no way to -know this except by looking at how the Linux kernel was configured). -For example: - - ./configure \ - --with-qemu="qemu-system-arm" \ - --with-qemu-options="-M versatilepb -cpu arm926" - ./configure \ - --with-qemu="qemu-system-arm" \ - --with-qemu-options="-M vexpress-a15 -cpu cortex-a15" - -Note that since virtio is required by libguestfs, and virtio is a -PCI-based architecture, whatever architecture qemu emulates MUST -support PCI. - -For PPC64 you will need to specify the IBM pSeries machine type: - - ./configure \ - --with-qemu="qemu-system-ppc64" \ - --with-qemu-options="-M pseries" - -After building libguestfs, run 'make quickcheck' and pay close -attention to the qemu command line and kernel output. - - Copyright and license information ----------------------------------------------------------------------