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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

  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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