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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:18:22 +0100
From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] hmp interface for kdump compressed format
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To: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, qiaonuohan <qiaonuohan@cn.fujitsu.com>
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On 20/03/14 21:56, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> On 03/20/14 21:38, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Qiao Nuohan,
>>
>> is there a reason why you did not implemented the HMP part for that format
>> of kdump compressed format? After all this is a patch mostly for developers,
>> so a HMP interface might come handy. Do you already have some patch in 
>> preparation or know somebody doing it?
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/249283/focus=250059
> 
> Laszlo
> 
So in essence: Due to the limitations of the command line parser we cannot
add the format to the hmp command line.
So something like adding

dump_guest_memory_set_format <format>

would be the only possible solution with the hmp code as is. Correct?
(If adding such a command is nice or not is another question)

Christian