Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/47] hw/alpha/Makefile.objs: Build objects depending on CLIPPER

[Peter Maydell]

On 26 August 2013 19:44, Lluís Vilanova <address@hidden> wrote:
> Richard Henderson writes:
>> This isn't the kernel, where non-pagable code size is a concern, so I don't 
>> see
>> how full configuration of machine emulations and devices is helpful.  I'd be
>> more inclined to go the other way, where all qemu-system-cpu images always
>> build in all devices (compiled once of course).
>
> Which reminds me of some older discussion about having a single QEMU binary 
> able
> to emulate a system with CPUs from different architectures (with a future^2
> version of qom'ified CPUs).
>
> Such fine-grained compilation would deviate even more from that goal (assuming
> it's a goal).

I think "aspiration" is perhaps more accurate than "goal", but yes :-)
In general I'm not convinced it's wise to give end-users and distros
even more config options to shoot themselves in the foot with
(and every distro is going to end up wanting to build an "everything"
config anyway, and hopefully most people use distro builds, so
what's the use case for anything else?)

-- PMM