From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53803 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGbbV-0000t9-4V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGbbH-0003Mw-Ck for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:16 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f181.google.com ([209.85.222.181]:36118) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGbbH-0003MO-6P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:03 -0400 Received: by pzk11 with SMTP id 11so2066213pzk.28 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BFAB970.8020800@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:37:52 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make hpet a compile time option References: <201005241732.46988.paul@codesourcery.com> <4BFAAE22.5040900@codemonkey.ws> <201005241811.10219.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <201005241811.10219.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: Blue Swirl , Jan Kiszka , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Juan Quintela On 05/24/2010 12:11 PM, Paul Brook wrote: > I think we're saying the same thing. > > We already have a mechanism for avoiding things at build time - specifically > config-devices.mak. We don't have a nice UI for it, but it's there. > At worst your distro specific patch is a 1-line change to default- > configs/i386-softmmu.mak. > > I have no objection to moving hpet.c into Makefile.objs, conditional on > CONFIG_HPET (like e.g. CONFIG_SERIAL/serial.o). However a necessary > prerequisite is that you fix the device model and machine initialisation so > that it's possible to omit hpet.o without rebuilding anything else. > Yes, I fully agree. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Paul >