Minimized qemu for qboot

Christian Ehrhardtrequested to merge
paelzer-guest/qemu:minimized-qemu-for-qboot into debian-unstable

Hi, we discussed that topic on IRC a bit before. First of all I want to thank you for adding the qboot FW, but as mentioned I wonder if we should also build a minimal qemu as it is suggested on qboot.

In this build the config diff was:

The binary size went down

  • 77921360 -> 52551976 (before stripping)

  • 14218112 -> 11361664 (final) Dependencies went down from

  • 86 to just 12 external libs (dd | wc -l)

We could bikeshed on:

  • enabled/disable options to add/remove
  • should it not be an extra package?
  • do we need news entries?
  • ...

But for now I just wanted to open the PR for your consideration of the general concept. Let me know what you think please.

If you are generally open to that we can:

  • sort out the details in a discussion here
  • do some measurements to check that it is as helpful as stated on qboot
  • merge it to provide the binary for this new aspect of qemu usage
Edited by Christian Ehrhardt

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