> > 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
