On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 10:42, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 5/9/23 11:27, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On Mon, 8 May 2023 at 23:24, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> --without-default-devices is not about choosing to not build > >> some devices; it is about making non-selected devices opt-in > >> rather than opt-out. > > > > Hmm, so it's basically "the person doing the configuration needs > > to know what they're doing, the Kconfig system will give them > > no hints about what devices might or might not be needed to > > make machine type M functional" ? > > It depends on what you mean by functional. I would say you do get what > is needed to have a functional machine, but not what is needed to have a > useful machine.
If you need to pass '-nodefaults' to get the thing to start up at all, that seems to be stretching the definition of "functional" to me. thanks -- PMM
