From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJBPN-0006yW-PU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:11:53 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJBPJ-0006rc-Hg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:11:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59977 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJBPJ-0006rJ-8b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:11:49 -0400 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.157]:25701) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJBPJ-0007hF-11 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:11:49 -0400 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so122735ywa.82 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:11:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A4128F2.6040905@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:11:46 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/15] sd flash is only used in arm devices References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "quintela@redhat.com" Blue Swirl wrote: > On 6/23/09, quintela@redhat.com wrote: > >> From: Juan Quintela >> > > While $SUBJECT may be true, the patch still goes to wrong direction. > The long term goal is to have a single binary for all systems. This > means that devices should get more generic and not be tied to some > systems. > While I agree with you, I think we want the device models to be treated as modules. This would allow someone to easily create a small version of QEMU that just emulated the things they were interested in. But the overriding goal should be to do this while eliminating #ifdefs and ifdefs so I think this series needs to take a different approach. Regards, Anthony Liguori