Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes April 3

[Anthony Liguori]

On 04/03/2012 03:43 PM, Dor Laor wrote:
> On 04/03/2012 05:43 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > I'm afraid my notes are rather rough...
> >
> > * 1.1
> > soft freeze apr 15th (less than two weeks)
> > hard freeze may 1
> > three months cycle for 1.2
> > stable machine types only every few releases? "pc-next"
> >
> > * Maintainers, got distracted and my notes make no sense, sorry
> >
> > * MSI injection to KVM irqchips from userspace devices models
> >
> > * qemu-kvm tree: working towards upstream merge
> >
> > not much left, mostly device assignment
> >
> > * Migration: vmstate and visitors, decoupling the wire format
> > why not ASN.1
>
> Curiosity kills me of waiting for next week's meeting to get the answer

ASN.1 is an IDL format.  It's encoded in many ways including BER.  I think 
there's wide spread agreement that the next migration wire format should be 
encoded with BER which means it could be described via ASN.1 but I don't think 
we intend on using ASN.1 within the code base.

I don't think using ASN.1 to describe devices makes sense.  There really aren't 
very good Open Source ASN.1 compilers.  I also don't think the syntax is 
flexible enough to fully describe a device either.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> > * qtest: test cases wanted