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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 5/8] module: implement module loading
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, famz@redhat.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, alex@alex.org.uk, vilanova@ac.upc.edu

On 09/16/2013 04:00 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> We could also have a huge web of shared objects like LibreOffice has
> (spice-core.so depending on qemu-system.so, and spice.mo depending on
> spice-core.so), but I'm not really suggesting that...

I am.  Although in our case I wouldn't expect the web to be huge.

To me it seems like working with the system dynamic linker is easier than
re-inventing our own.


r~