From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Device state visualization reloaded
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:27:26 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110902142726.4839f5d6@doriath> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1314370059.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:48:10 +0200
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> wrote:
> More than one year ago I posted some patches to add a monitor command
> callend device_show. The purpose of that command is to dump the state of
> some qdev device based on its vmstate.
>
> To improve the usability of that interface, the previous series also
> tried to create a canonical qdev tree path name format and even added
> monitor command expansion. That format created quite a few discussions,
> and we never came to some conclusion.
>
> As device_show is still a useful tool for debugging but qdev structuring
> and addressing may significantly change in the near future, I decided to
> reanimate those patches while avoiding almost any change of the
> addressing scheme. The only one I propose is automatic ID assignment for
> anonymous devices so that any qdev device is in principle addressable
> (e.g. APIC and IO-APIC on x86).
>
> As back then, device_show remains HMP-only to avoid any stable ABI
> issues around QMP.
>
> CC: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
> CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
This looks good to me and I'm willing to apply it. Only issue I'd like to see
resolved is the base64 encoder/decoder. This series introduces a new one,
while the guest agent uses glib's.
I think we should choose one of them and stick to it.
Any other objections apart from that? Markus?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-26 14:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Device state visualization reloaded Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] monitor: return length of printed string via monitor_[v]printf Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] Add base64 encoder/decoder Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 15:21 ` Peter Maydell
2011-08-26 15:23 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 15:47 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 18:02 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-02 17:22 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-09-05 13:55 ` [Qemu-devel] required glib version? " Gerd Hoffmann
2011-08-26 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] QMP: Reserve namespace for complex object classes Jan Kiszka
2011-09-02 17:23 ` Luiz Capitulino
2011-09-02 17:47 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-02 18:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-26 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] QMP: Add QBuffer Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 18:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 " Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] monitor: Add basic device state visualization Jan Kiszka
2011-08-26 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] qdev: Generate IDs for anonymous devices Jan Kiszka
2011-08-29 19:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-29 20:56 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-29 21:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-31 18:31 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-07 9:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-09-07 10:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-07 10:34 ` Gleb Natapov
2011-09-07 10:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-29 19:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Device state visualization reloaded Anthony Liguori
2011-08-29 20:54 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-02 17:27 ` Luiz Capitulino [this message]
2011-09-06 14:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-06 15:45 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-06 15:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-06 16:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-06 16:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-06 16:33 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-06 16:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-06 16:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-06 17:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-07 9:37 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-09-07 13:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-07 13:13 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-07 13:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-07 13:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 13:29 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-07 13:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-06 16:29 ` Jan Kiszka
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