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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:22:44 +0800
From: Yang Zhong <yang.zhong@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 22/25] i386-softmmu.mak: remove all
 CONFIG_* except boards definitions
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, peter.maydell@linaro.org, sameo@linux.intel.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, yang.zhong@intel.com

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 12:48:47PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/01/19 11:53, Yang Zhong wrote:
> > Thanks for detailed comments, i will change this one by one.
> > The previous plan put all "selects" into hw/i386/Kconfig file, which
> > can easily config board if we want to optimize i440fx or q35 platform.
> 
> The selects are for mandatory devices, so if you remove them the machine
> will not start.
> 
> If you want to reduce the platform by omitting non-mandatory devices,
> you can use default-configs, because non-mandatory devices will be
> "default y" (or "default y if PC/PCI/SCSI/I2C"/whatever).
> 
> Paolo
> 
  Thanks Paolo, it's clear now! Yang.

> > The new solution will spread "selects" into detailed hw/*/Kconfig file.