From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISeu5-0000L5-Uv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:21:42 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISeu4-0000Hw-BA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:21:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISeu3-0000HU-Sf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:21:39 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISeu3-00083g-Hy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:21:39 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l84KMwdK017803 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:22:58 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.5) with ESMTP id l84KLXfi518664 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:21:33 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l84KLXuZ020032 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:21:33 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH] Patches from the PyQemu project) From: Hollis Blanchard In-Reply-To: <200709042104.59276.paul@codesourcery.com> References: <1aa37d910709020650v7c491985r761886db64435ac0@mail.gmail.com> <1188852253.10151.3.camel@squirrel> <200709042104.59276.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:21:20 -0500 Message-Id: <1188937280.29530.41.camel@basalt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: Hollis Blanchard , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: kvm-devel , kvm-ppc-devel , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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