Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > On 31/03/2015 11:56, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> These commands look like bit-rotted development aids to me. >> >> They're limited to just a few interrupt controllers. For the most >> common machine types and accelerators, they do nothing. >> >> They complicate David Gibson's work on disentangling dependencies on >> ISA. >> >> I'm cc'ing the maintainers of all machines that can be configured in a >> way that makes these commands do something. Please speak up if you >> think they provide value. > > For x86, they can be removed. However, it would be nice to provide > access to the same information via QOM, especially for "info pic". This > is the old QIDL project.
I guess you mean introspecting device state via QOM, thus QMP. Would be nice indeed, and much more useful than on-off hacks like "info pic". Should be no harder than serializing device state, which we already do for migration. At least in theory. In practice, ...
