Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-08-07 Thread Dave Anderson
- Original Message - > Hi Dave > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 01:47:50AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > >> > > >> > There's more info scattered in other places. > >> > > >> > Why do you get to document it? Because you are t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-28 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 07/28/17 16:52, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi Dave > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 01:47:50AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: There's more info scattered in other places. Why do you get to document it? Because you a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-28 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi Dave On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 01:47:50AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >> > >> > There's more info scattered in other places. >> > >> > Why do you get to document it? Because you are the one exposing it >> > across the hypervisor/v

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-26 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 01:47:50AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > > > There's more info scattered in other places. > > > > Why do you get to document it? Because you are the one exposing it > > across the hypervisor/vm boundary where it will need to be > > understood by people/tools not runnin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Marc-André Lureau
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:40 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 01:30:56AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:09 AM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> > >> > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:12:06AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >> > > Hi >> > > >> >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 01:30:56AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:09 AM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:12:06AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin > > > wrote:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:09 AM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:12:06AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > >> > It worr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 12:12:06AM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> > It worries me that the format of this seems completely undefined > >> > except in the pa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> > It worries me that the format of this seems completely undefined >> > except in the patchset cover letter. >> > I don't think we should merge this before it is. >> >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > It worries me that the format of this seems completely undefined > > except in the patchset cover letter. > > I don't think we should merge this before it is. > > I'm not sure what you mean, this patch adds "docs/specs/vmcoreinfo.tx

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 07/14/17 21:26, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:20:05PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >> The VM coreinfo (vmcoreinfo) device is an emulated device which >> exposes a 4k memory range to the guest to store various informations >> useful to debug the guest OS. (it is greatl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 08:20:05PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > The VM coreinfo (vmcoreinfo) device is an emulated device which > exposes a 4k memory range to the guest to store various informations > useful to debug the guest OS. (it is greatly inspired by the VMGENID > device implementation)

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 2/8] acpi: add vmcoreinfo device

2017-07-14 Thread Marc-André Lureau
The VM coreinfo (vmcoreinfo) device is an emulated device which exposes a 4k memory range to the guest to store various informations useful to debug the guest OS. (it is greatly inspired by the VMGENID device implementation) This is an early-boot alternative to the qemu-ga VMDUMP_INFO event propos