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In-Reply-To: <20170919095142.GD22797@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (Stefan
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/6] initial plugin support
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

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> wrot=
e:
>> > Thanks for sending this!  Could you and Llu=C3=ADs collaborate on a si=
ngle
>> > instrumentation plugin API?
>> >
>> > Let's have a discussion with Llu=C3=ADs, 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=3D20170926T1=
40000&p1=3D136
>>=20
>> I can't make that, I'm afraid, it's Linaro Connect that week.
>>=20
>> 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 pu=
blic
headers.

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


Cheers,
  Lluis