Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/6] initial plugin support

["Lluís Vilanova" <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>]

Stefan Hajnoczi writes:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 04:05:31PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 18 September 2017 at 15:59, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for sending this!  Could you and Lluís collaborate on a single
>> > instrumentation plugin API?
>> >
>> > Let's have a discussion with Lluís, Peter, myself, and potentially
>> > others then we can use the QEMU Developer Conference Call that is
>> > scheduled every 2 weeks.
>> >
>> > The next call time slot is Tue 26 Sept at 13:00 UTC:
>> > https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170926T140000&p1=136
>> 
>> I can't make that, I'm afraid, it's Linaro Connect that week.
>> 
>> From my point of view, it would be helpful to start with
>> just designing the API that we're trying to implement.
>> I care a lot that we get that API correct, I don't care much
>> at all about the implementation...

> That sounds good to me.

> An RFC patch with just the header files would be enough for mailing list
> discussion.  No implementation is needed yet.

I can send a stripped down version of this series only with the docs and public
headers.

But first I would like to know how to handle the translate/execute
differentiation first (if it is indeed needed).


Cheers,
  Lluis