Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/4] ARM: add query-gic-capabilities QMP command

[Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 21:10 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 24 March 2016 at 02:55, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > Sample command and output:
> > 
> > {"execute": "query-gic-capability"}
> > {"return": [{"emulated": false, "version": 3, "kernel": false},
> >             {"emulated": true, "version": 2, "kernel": true}]}
> 
> I really strongly want this in 2.6 but we are very very nearly
> out of time. Eric or Markus, could I trouble one of you to
> provide an ack for this series for the QMP protocol aspects
> sometime before end of Wednesday, please?
> 
> I also don't think I've seen an indication from the libvirt
> folks that this is definitely the API they want; did I miss it?

Yes, this works nicely for libvirt; in fact, I've already
posted an RFC implementation[1] to the list last week.

Cheers.


[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-March/msg00956.html
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Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team