Re: [Qemu-devel] Ideas wiki for GSoC 2010

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 03/12/2010 09:56 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> Once the student(s) have gone through the trouble to familiarize
>> themselves with the monitor code, they would be well-positioned to
>> complete this extra bit.  How difficult do you imagine it will be to
>> convert the remaining commands over to QObject?
>>      
>   Well, I won't set the goal to convert all of them, because seems
> too much work and Anthony has said that we may not want all the
> handlers available under QMP. So, this has to be discussed (preferably
> before GSoC starts for students).
>    

What I would like to see is a clean break between the human monitor and 
QMP whereas the human monitor is implemented in terms of QMP.

For instance, the x and xp commands are not very useful for QMP.  
However, a generic memory read/write API would be pretty useful.  The 
x/xp commands would be implemented in terms of the memory QMP API.

Likewise, the sum command can be implemented in terms of the above API.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>   Also, I have two other projects that could related to the async
> conversion:
>
> - Simplify/Improve the QObject API
> - Improve error handling (QError conversion involved)
>