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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes April 3
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:40:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7BFAEB.7070000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120404011843.GA2918@illuin>

Il 04/04/2012 03:18, Michael Roth ha scritto:
> Attacking the IDL/schema side first is the more rationale approach. From
> there we can potentially generate ASN.1 BER/DER visitors for the protocol
> side, or potentially even just vmstate bindings as a start. I've recently
> started looking into the latter... it's completely feasible, the only
> downside is it complicates the IDL due requiring support for a lot of
> what are very much vmstate-specific items, but it should be possible to
> do this in a manner where those annotations are self-contained and
> ignorable if we opted to replace vmstate-style declarations.

We can also keep the current vmstate descriptions, but access fields
from the automatically-generated visitors instead of struct fields.
This keeps the IDL simple.

Paolo

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes April 3
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:40:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7BFAEB.7070000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120404011843.GA2918@illuin>

Il 04/04/2012 03:18, Michael Roth ha scritto:
> Attacking the IDL/schema side first is the more rationale approach. From
> there we can potentially generate ASN.1 BER/DER visitors for the protocol
> side, or potentially even just vmstate bindings as a start. I've recently
> started looking into the latter... it's completely feasible, the only
> downside is it complicates the IDL due requiring support for a lot of
> what are very much vmstate-specific items, but it should be possible to
> do this in a manner where those annotations are self-contained and
> ignorable if we opted to replace vmstate-style declarations.

We can also keep the current vmstate descriptions, but access fields
from the automatically-generated visitors instead of struct fields.
This keeps the IDL simple.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-03 14:43 KVM call minutes April 3 Markus Armbruster
2012-04-03 14:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2012-04-03 20:43 ` Dor Laor
2012-04-04  1:18   ` Michael Roth
2012-04-04  1:18     ` Michael Roth
2012-04-04  7:40     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-04-04  7:40       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-04 10:37       ` Michael Roth
2012-04-04 10:37         ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael Roth
2012-04-04 10:53         ` Dor Laor
2012-04-04 10:53           ` Dor Laor
2012-04-04 11:52           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-04-04 11:52             ` Anthony Liguori
2012-04-04 12:01             ` Dor Laor
2012-04-04 12:01               ` Dor Laor
2012-04-04 12:14           ` Michael Roth
2012-04-04 12:14             ` Michael Roth
2012-04-04 13:21             ` Igor Mammedov
2012-04-04 13:21               ` Igor Mammedov
2012-04-04 14:39               ` Michael Roth
2012-04-05 16:16                 ` Avi Kivity
2012-04-05 16:16                   ` Avi Kivity
2012-04-04 11:48   ` Anthony Liguori
2012-04-04 11:48     ` Anthony Liguori

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