From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [COMMIT e20a8df] Compile fdc, escc and SCSI controllers only once
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:49:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905221649.37462.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580905220846u4206b181wc1d2223521530293@mail.gmail.com>
> > > Yes, I forgot about the whole-archive hack. I've disabled it for
> > > hwlib, so now arm-softmmu links.
> >
> > This is completely wrong. The reason we use whole-archive is so that
> > device constructors are run. Most machines are broken after your change.
>
> Did you test? I don't see any breakage, qemu-img --help shows all
> block formats and qemu-system-arm -M '?' lists all machines.
>
> Because whole-archive is still used for libqemu_common.a, all devices
> in that archive are linked in (whether they are used or not!), so the
> constructors work.
The machines themselves are there, but many of the devices they use (e.g. the
pci scsi emulation) are not.
Paul
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[not found] <200905211555.n4LFtklw030900@d01av03.pok.ibm.com>
2009-05-21 16:45 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [COMMIT e20a8df] Compile fdc, escc and SCSI controllers only once Jan Kiszka
2009-05-21 18:35 ` Blue Swirl
2009-05-21 22:32 ` Paul Brook
2009-05-22 15:46 ` Blue Swirl
2009-05-22 15:49 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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