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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [COMMIT e20a8df] Compile fdc,
	escc and SCSI controllers only once
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Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>

> >  > 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