From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
kvm-ppc-devel <kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project)
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:21:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188937280.29530.41.camel@basalt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709042104.59276.paul@codesourcery.com>
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 21:04 +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> > This could be very valuable when thinking about running qemu *on* embedded
> > systems with constrained memory and processing power, which is exactly what
> > the KVM for embedded PowerPC project is considering. In that scenario,
> > being able to strip out all unnecessary functionality (especially
> > including devices known to be irrelevant) becomes very important.
>
> If you care about memory overhead the last thing you want is to be loading
> loads of bitty little shared libraries. You want to build a single binary
> with just the features you need.
Hmm, that's a good point. Is that something you think can reasonably be
accomplished with qemu today?
--
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-04 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 13:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project Maria Zabolotnaya
2007-09-03 15:41 ` Blue Swirl
2007-09-03 20:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-04 19:40 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project) Hollis Blanchard
2007-09-04 20:04 ` Paul Brook
2007-09-04 20:21 ` Hollis Blanchard [this message]
2007-09-04 20:38 ` Paul Brook
2007-09-04 23:38 ` [kvm-devel] " Jimi Xenidis
2007-09-04 20:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-04 19:57 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Patches from PyQemu project Brian Johnson
2007-09-04 20:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-04 22:27 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-09-04 23:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-04 23:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-09-05 10:08 ` Fabrice Bellard
2007-09-04 22:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Sokolovsky
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