From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes April 3 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:48:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4F7C3525.7080301@codemonkey.ws> References: <4F7B610D.8000101@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, KVM devel mailing list To: dlaor@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:46265 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756201Ab2DDLs4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 07:48:56 -0400 Received: by obbtb18 with SMTP id tb18so213259obb.19 for ; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:48:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F7B610D.8000101@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/03/2012 03:43 PM, Dor Laor wrote: > On 04/03/2012 05:43 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> I'm afraid my notes are rather rough... >> >> * 1.1 >> soft freeze apr 15th (less than two weeks) >> hard freeze may 1 >> three months cycle for 1.2 >> stable machine types only every few releases? "pc-next" >> >> * Maintainers, got distracted and my notes make no sense, sorry >> >> * MSI injection to KVM irqchips from userspace devices models >> >> * qemu-kvm tree: working towards upstream merge >> >> not much left, mostly device assignment >> >> * Migration: vmstate and visitors, decoupling the wire format >> why not ASN.1 > > Curiosity kills me of waiting for next week's meeting to get the answer ASN.1 is an IDL format. It's encoded in many ways including BER. I think there's wide spread agreement that the next migration wire format should be encoded with BER which means it could be described via ASN.1 but I don't think we intend on using ASN.1 within the code base. I don't think using ASN.1 to describe devices makes sense. There really aren't very good Open Source ASN.1 compilers. I also don't think the syntax is flexible enough to fully describe a device either. Regards, Anthony Liguori > >> >> * qtest: test cases wanted >> > >