[Qemu-devel] QAPI Merge Plans

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Hi,

I've gotten my QAPI branch now functionally complete so I'm ready to 
start working on merging.  I thought I'd send a note about my plans as 
both a heads up and to see if anyone had any suggestions.

My plan is to split everything up into three rounds.  The first round 
will just be core infrastructure--the code generator, the new QMP 
server, the signal infrastructure, etc.  This round will introduce a new 
command line option to expose the new QMP server (still chardev based).

Round two will consist of all of the 0.14 commands.  Some new commands 
are also needed because some of the 0.14 commands are untestable without 
new QMP commands :-/

Finally, round three will include some of the new and potentially 
controversial bits like the new non-chardev based QMP server, default 
session and discovery, qsh tool, etc.

After these three rounds are merged, I'll then work on adding all of the 
new QMP commands to support a full HMP session.

I've tried to put a ton of information on the wiki that hopefully will 
give a good amount of background along with current status.

I expect the first round of patches to be on list this week.

http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/QAPI

Regards,

Anthony Liguori