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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] backdoor: Add documentation
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Zhi Yong Wu <zwu.kernel@gmail.com>, =?UTF-8?B?TGx1w61zIFZpbGFub3Zh?= <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 12/06/2011 04:36 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 2011/12/5 Lluís Vilanova<vilanova@ac.upc.edu>:
>> +3. Build QEMU with the backdoor feature:
>> +
>> +    /path/to/qemu/configure --with-backdoor=/tmp/my-backdoor-qemu
>
> If we want to do this wouldn't it make more sense to do it
> by having qemu dynamically load a plugin DLL with a specified
> ABI rather than having to compile the specific backdoor
> handler into qemu proper?

No way.  If you want to implement a custom device, then send a proper patch. 
We're not adding hooks to let people add random things like this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> -- PMM
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