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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: stefanha@gmail.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, nab@linux-iscsi.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, kraxel@redhat.com

On 11/25/10 14:22, Paul Brook wrote:
>> On 25.11.2010, at 11:59, Paul Brook wrote:
>> RH needs to compile out as much as they can from the code base, because
>> they state that they support everything that's compiled in. So making as
>> much as possible optional is good. And I don't see why we should limit
>> ourselves here.
> 
> My second point (should be enabled by default) still applies.  Your patch 
> removes the lsi controller from the default arm-softmmu config, which is 
> definitely wrong.

Right I am not advocating changing the defaults, all I suggest is we
make it an option to disable some of the devices. There are people
running on smaller systems or dedicated systems where they know exactly
which 7 devices they need and nothing more. They would be quite happy to
be able to strip down QEMU to the minimum they need.

Cheers,
Jes