docs/devel/kconfig.rst

13 SCSI adapters.  Arm, s390 and x86 boards can all present a virtio-blk
21 QEMU uses a simple domain-specific language to describe the dependencies
36 This domain-specific language is based on the Kconfig language that
41 is instead specified in per-target files under the ``configs/``
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78 include it for clarity and future-proofing.  After ``bool`` the following
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189   Device groups provide a convenient mechanism to enable/disable many
199   for example only VFIO (passthrough) and virtio-pci devices.
202   board (and not ones which are very board-specific or that need
206   or KVM.
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261 a file called ``configs/TARGETNAME-softmmu.mak``.  These files
262 initialize some Kconfig variables to non-default values and provide the
267     # Default configuration for alpha-softmmu
269     # Uncomment the following lines to disable these optional devices:
278 The first part, consisting of commented-out ``=n`` assignments, tells
286 ``--without-default-devices`` option.  When this is done, everything defaults
298 machine, and even then only if ``--nodefaults`` is specified on the
299 command line.  Starting a VM *without* ``--nodefaults`` is allowed to
301 ``--without-default-devices`` are considered bugs in the test code:
302 the tests should either use ``--nodefaults``, and should be skipped
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316 example some devices depend on the availability of KVM or on the presence
324 and also listed as follows in the top-level meson.build's host_kconfig