From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
"Zhi Yong Wu" <zwu.kernel@gmail.com>,
"Lluís Vilanova" <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] backdoor: Add documentation
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:51:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDE9C76.8010906@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-Ja0nqLORdPi29zQwPw9GV2HPyOQT_uvfH6SZyrzJi2g@mail.gmail.com>
On 12/06/2011 04:36 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 2011/12/5 Lluís Vilanova<vilanova@ac.upc.edu>:
>> +3. Build QEMU with the backdoor feature:
>> +
>> + /path/to/qemu/configure --with-backdoor=/tmp/my-backdoor-qemu
>
> If we want to do this wouldn't it make more sense to do it
> by having qemu dynamically load a plugin DLL with a specified
> ABI rather than having to compile the specific backdoor
> handler into qemu proper?
No way. If you want to implement a custom device, then send a proper patch.
We're not adding hooks to let people add random things like this.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> -- PMM
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-06 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-05 22:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] backdoor: lightweight guest-to-QEMU backdoor channel Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-05 22:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] backdoor: Add documentation Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-06 22:36 ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-06 22:51 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-12-06 22:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-05 22:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] backdoor: Add build infrastructure Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-05 22:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/5] backdoor: [*-user] Add QEMU-side proxy to "libbackdoor.a" Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-05 22:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] backdoor: [softmmu] " Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-06 19:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-06 22:30 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-06 22:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-06 22:37 ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-07 8:21 ` [Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics (was: [PATCH v2 4/5] backdoor: [softmmu] Add QEMU-side proxy to "libbackdoor.a") Markus Armbruster
2011-12-07 13:49 ` [Qemu-devel] Insane virtio-serial semantics Anthony Liguori
2011-12-07 19:44 ` Michael Roth
2011-12-07 19:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-08 10:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-12-08 14:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-06 22:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] backdoor: [softmmu] Add QEMU-side proxy to "libbackdoor.a" Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-05 22:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/5] backdoor: Add guest-side library Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-06 22:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] backdoor: lightweight guest-to-QEMU backdoor channel Anthony Liguori
2011-12-07 12:21 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-07 13:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-07 15:23 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-07 15:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-07 16:59 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-07 17:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-07 18:35 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-07 18:51 ` Peter Maydell
2011-12-07 18:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-07 20:13 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-07 22:03 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-08 20:45 ` Blue Swirl
2011-12-08 14:05 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-08 18:57 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-08 20:57 ` Blue Swirl
2011-12-08 22:16 ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-12-09 11:23 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-09 20:55 ` Lluís Vilanova
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