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Subject: Re: two questions about xen on arm
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 08:29:30 +0000
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On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 18:52 +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> If you are really concerned about the size of the kernel it might make
> sense to disable the backends or the frontends depending on whether you
> are running linux in dom0 or another domU.

Or make them modular, which is what I would expect most distros to do.
Both front and backends should be autoloaded when necessary these days.