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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pvevent: pvevent device driver
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:55:07 +0100
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Il 15/03/2013 20:35, Matthew Garrett ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 16:51 +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
> 
>> +	{ "MSFT0001", 0},
> 
> This seems wrong, and it looks like qemu agrees. Can you resubmit when
> there's agreement on the name?
> 
>> +	acpi_evaluate_object(handle, "WRPT", &arg_list, NULL);
> 
> Is there a spec for this?

Not yet.  Hu, in the next version of your QEMU patches you probably will
not need anymore usage information in docs/pvevent.txt.  Instead, please
add a spec for both the ISA and ACPI interfaces in docs/spec/pvevent.txt.

> Is the only reason for this to allow guests to notify the host that
> they've panicked? It seems like making use of pstore to push the crash
> dump to the host. as well would be a useful thing to do.

Since we try to limit the amount of VM-specific interfaces we have
(yeah, I know this is one), that would mean implementing APEI in QEMU, I
guess.  It is definitely a useful thing to have, but a bit wider in
scope than a simple device to distinguish idle and crashed VMs.

Paolo