From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Monitor brain dump
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 13:07:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d193d70-9e6e-c91a-01ad-926851a544e2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161005174358.GD11921@work-vm>
On 05/10/2016 19:43, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Speaking of the pocket calculator: my recommendation would be "nuke from
> > orbit". It adds surprising corner cases to the HMP language, and
> > provides next to no value.
>
> Huh, didn't realise that existed - I assume you mean get_expr and friends?
> yep sounds nukable
We've been suggesting commands like "x/10i $pc-20" to people who
reported emulation failures in KVM, so there is some benefit in that.
My hunch is that it would be a drop in the sea if monitor.c were
refactored properly. Now that QMP middle mode is gone it should be much
easier.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-06 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-05 16:22 [Qemu-devel] Monitor brain dump Markus Armbruster
2016-10-05 17:03 ` Luiz Capitulino
2016-10-05 17:43 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-10-05 18:48 ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-10-05 19:19 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-10-06 11:07 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-10-06 11:10 ` Peter Maydell
2016-10-06 11:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-10-06 11:20 ` Marc-André Lureau
2016-10-07 10:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-10-06 11:26 ` Markus Armbruster
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