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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qemu device emulation libraries (was [PATCH]
	Patches from the PyQemu project)
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 21:38:02 +0100
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To: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, kvm-ppc-devel <kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 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?

It should be fairly easy.

Paul