From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Miles Glenn <milesg@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaitepeter@gmail.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
Caleb Schlossin <calebs@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/7] qmp: add pmemload command
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:28:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87se3g9op0.fsf@pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f4620558ac861573fc83d6569189432de77493b.camel@linux.ibm.com> (Miles Glenn's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:59:28 -0500")
Miles Glenn <milesg@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that this patch set stalled several years ago for no apparent
> reason. Does anybody know why?
Review pointed out issues, but the submitter never responded. Possibly
because review exhausted submitter's patience.
>
> I find myself needing the functionality of a command like `pmemload`.
> Our user needs to be able to load a binary file into a physical address
> of their VM and it would need to be done every time they start the VM
> (not just for debug or experimentation). It also needs to be done at
> some point after the VM has already started. I understand that the gdb
> stub could possibly be used, but we don't want to prevent the user from
> being able to use GDB themselves. The pmemload command uses QMP, so it
> seems that it would be the perfect solution for us.
You could post a v9 addressing the review, or you could start over.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-11 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-15 14:07 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/7] qmp: add pmemload command Simon Ruderich
2018-11-15 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/7] cpus: correct coding style in qmp_memsave/qmp_pmemsave Simon Ruderich
2018-11-15 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 2/7] cpus: convert qmp_memsave/qmp_pmemsave to use qemu_open Simon Ruderich
2018-11-15 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 3/7] cpus: use size_t in qmp_memsave/qmp_pmemsave Simon Ruderich
2018-11-15 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 4/7] hmp: use l for size argument in memsave/pmemsave Simon Ruderich
2018-11-15 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 5/7] hmp: use F for filename arguments " Simon Ruderich
2018-11-15 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 6/7] qmp: add pmemload command Simon Ruderich
2018-11-28 12:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2018-11-28 16:43 ` Eric Blake
2018-11-28 18:07 ` Markus Armbruster
2018-11-15 14:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 7/7] hmp: " Simon Ruderich
2026-09-10 16:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/7] qmp: " Miles Glenn
2026-09-11 8:28 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2026-09-11 14:16 ` Miles Glenn
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