Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 0/3] ARM: add query-gic-capabilities SMP command

[Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 10:32 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 8 March 2016 at 07:36, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > v4 changes:
> > - all: rename query-gic-capability to query-gic-capabilities [Andrea]
> > - patch 3: rename helper function to kvm_support_device, make it
> >   inline and lighter. [Drew]
> > 
> > v3 changes:
> > - patch 2: remove func declaration, add qmp header [Drew]
> > - patch 3: being able to detect KVM GIC capabilities even without
> >   kvm enabled [Andrea]: this is a little bit hacky, need some more
> >   review on this.
> > 
> > v2 changes:
> > - result layout change: use array and dict for the capability bits
> >   rather than a single array of strings [Andrea/Markus]
> > - spelling out what GIC is in doc [Eric]
> > 
> > This patch is to add ARM-specific command "query-gic-capability".
> > 
> > The new command can report which kind of GIC device the host/QEMU
> > support. The returned result is in the form of array.
> 
> Hi. I've made some code review comments on the specifics of the
> implementation, but really what I'd like to see is:
>  * an ack from the libvirt folks that this API meets their
>    requirements

I have a working implementation of the libvirt part, but I need
to polish it up before it can be posted on the list; then other
libvirt folks will be able to provide feedback.

Cheers.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team