Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make i82801b11 and ioh3420 x86 only by default

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 04:20:36PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:45:23PM +0900, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 18 February 2015 at 16:57, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On 18/02/2015 05:59, David Gibson wrote:
> > >> that are very unlikely to appear on anything other than
> > >> an x86.  Therefore this patch gives them their own config options, 
> > >> enabled
> > >> only for x86 targets by default.
> > >
> > > I think it's quite likely that we'll use them, or at least ioh3420, on
> > > any PCIe machine.  So you probably want to add ioh3420 to arm-softmmu
> > > and aarch64-softmmu as well.  I don't know about i82801b11, but it
> > > doesn't hurt to have it in ARM/AArch64 either.
> > 
> > What's the motivation for narrowing these down to particular
> > configs anyway?
> 
> Simply to avoid probably-irrelevant devices showing up in qemu -device
> ?

And make the binary smaller.

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