From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gKquc-0001lD-93 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:28:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gKquS-00010v-1O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:28:15 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56898) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gKquR-0000zM-L8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2018 15:28:11 -0500 References: <20181107154114.GC27585@caravaggio> <20181107192414.GH12503@habkost.net> <20181108130648.GJ12503@habkost.net> <95a93d53-f87d-bd96-9363-582c4eae4160@redhat.com> <20181108171437.GM12503@habkost.net> <20181108184242.GQ12503@habkost.net> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <2f4793c3-5509-1def-3157-02bc0d9bbe26@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:28:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181108184242.GQ12503@habkost.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU and Kconfig List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eduardo Habkost Cc: Thomas Huth , Samuel Ortiz , "Zhong, Yang" , Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers Oops. :) On 08/11/2018 19:42, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >>> Keeping in mind that I might be talking about extra challenges we >>> won't address right now (no cart before the horse), I have new >>> questions: >>> >>> Why you say backends are not a target configuration and >>> accelerators are? What's the definition of "target >>> configuration"? Something that affects the hardware seen by the guest is target configuration. Backends do not affect what hardware the guest sees. Boards and devices do; accelerators do, but that's more of a side-effect than something intended. Paolo