On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 6:06 PM Zhao Liu <zhao1....@intel.com> wrote: > I think deeper and higher level bindings will have more opens and will > likely require more discussion and exploration. So could we explore this > direction on another reference Rust device? > > I also think there won’t be too many Rust devices in the short term. > Going back to tweak or enhance existing Rust devices may not require too > much effort, once we have a definitive answer. > > I wonder if x86 could also implement a rust device (like the x86 timer > you mentioned before, hw/i386/kvm/i8254.c or hw/timer/i8254.c IIRC) to > try this? Or would you recommend another x86 device? :-)
A timer device is a good idea, just because it's another pretty stable low-level QEMU API. The problem with hw/timer/i8254.c is that it has the KVM version, as you found. The HPET is an alternative though. Paolo
