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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there a technical reason why the kqemu kernel module is built out of
> a binary blob (monitor-image.bin->monitor-image.h)? Does this simply
> date back to the time when wrapper and core were distributed under
> different licenses?

This is a technical reason: the "blob" is run in an address space
different from the host kernel.

Fabrice.