From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5xnI-0008DE-Se for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:01:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5xnD-0000uz-RB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:01:24 -0400 Received: from mx2.parallels.com ([199.115.105.18]:51029) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5xnD-0000u9-Ky for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:01:19 -0400 Message-ID: <55842EB3.6000400@openvz.org> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:01:07 +0300 From: "Denis V. Lunev" MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1434725298-22666-1-git-send-email-den@openvz.org> <55842D90.7090609@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <55842D90.7090609@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] hmp command IO- and Local APIC dump state List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Pavel Butsykin On 19/06/15 17:56, Eric Blake wrote: > On 06/19/2015 08:48 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote: >> Added the hmp command to query IO- and Local APIC registers state, >> it can be very useful to identify problems related to the emulation devices. > Will there ever be a desire to expose this via QMP, or is it really a > debugging aid unlikely to be used by QMP management applications? (We > do have other such HMP-only commands like 'p' and 'x', but it's always > worth asking). > this is written in mind for debug only. I could not imagine how this could be useful in the other way. I am glad to hear other opinions which are always welcome :) Den