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Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules.
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Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules. |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 11:28:15 +0200 |
> > Hmm, what would be the use case? Right now qemu has the all-or-nothing
> > approach for modules, i.e. if modules are enabled everything we can
> > build as module will be built as module, and I havn't seen any drawbacks
> > so far. So, why would one compile parts of qemu as module and other
> > parts not?
>
> From my point of view, as a QEMU package maintainer, the all-or-nothing
> module
> approach is great - specially for accelerators - because we can create a set
> of officially supported packages and another set of optional modules, that
> users may get them if they want to.
Same here ;)
> However, please correct me if I'm wrong, I understand that an accelerator as
> a
> module will add an overhead that some user won't be willing to pay. So, give
> them the option to have built-in accelerators seems a good idea.
Modules add some overhead, yes, and there are surely use-cases where you
don't want accel modules. I would just expect people don't want the
other modules either then, but maybe I'm wrong.
take care,
Gerd
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., (continued)
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/06/10
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/06/10
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Claudio Fontana, 2021/06/10
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Paolo Bonzini, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Claudio Fontana, 2021/06/11
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., José Ricardo Ziviani, 2021/06/14
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/06/15
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., José Ricardo Ziviani, 2021/06/15
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules.,
Gerd Hoffmann <=
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Claudio Fontana, 2021/06/16
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/06/17
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Claudio Fontana, 2021/06/17
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Gerd Hoffmann, 2021/06/17
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Claudio Fontana, 2021/06/17
- Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules., Paolo Bonzini, 2021/06/11