>>> On 20.09.16 at 14:35, <de...@asterius.io> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: > >> >>> On 13.09.16 at 21:40, <de...@asterius.io> wrote: >> > Allows for the conditional inclusion of VGA driver on the x86 platform >> > rather than having it always enabled. >> >> So I guess with all three of these patches an overview mail is missing. >> What are you trying to accomplish? Solely reducing the binary size of >> Xen doesn't seem like a very important goal to me, and eliminating >> these drivers from the build doesn't appear to help make Xen more >> stable of secure. >> > I agree with your assessment on the stability and security standpoint. Our > customer has asked us to remove > unused drivers based on functionality of a set of boards. Each of the > boards has a subset of the available hardware functionality > brought out to accessible headers.
Well, does that mean that's just to reduce the size of the hypervisor? If so, I'm honestly not sure we want to set a precedent here, since if we do, people could come and suggest to make all sorts of code build conditionally, and I don't think our plans with Kconfig so far were going in that direction (but others may disagree with me here). Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
