Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 02/21] qom: Add QOM support to user emulators

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/07/2012 11:25 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 6 February 2012 19:16, Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > If we're going to go down this road, then I have a hard requirement.  We
> > need to build the common infrastructure only once.
> >
> > Otherwise build times are going to explode and we'll end up with
> > CONFIG_USER_ONLY #defines all over the place.
>
> You already have to build twice, because you can't say "build the
> user emulators with --static and the system emulators without", so
> one of the standard use cases requires doing two configure-and-build
> runs anyhow.

So does it make sense to build both user and system emulators by default?

QOM has a lot of dependencies.  Rebuilding it for user means that we're goign to 
end up rebuilding a lot of user code which sucks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- PMM