From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, ehabkost@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
wainersm@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com,
"Niteesh G. S." <niteesh.gs@gmail.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: GSoC Intro - TUI interface for QMP
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2021 17:01:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87czswxuwn.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d45d686b-ca43-821c-e843-cf0f963e4e6e@redhat.com> (John Snow's message of "Tue, 1 Jun 2021 19:47:08 -0400")
John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> writes:
[...]
> A challenge will be where to pull the help text from. The QEMU server
> is not capable (today) of sending help information over the QMP socket
> itself.
>
> We will need to implement a QMP command inside of QEMU directly that
> is capable of delivering this information to the client so that it can
> render it.
>
> Since not all versions of QEMU will have this feature, the qmp-shell
> will need to be able to gracefully deal with the lack of help text,
> displaying an error indicating that this version of QEMU does not have
> help information compiled into it.
The doc text is bulky: my bld/docs/manual/interop/qemu-qmp-ref.html is
1.7 MiB and growing. Less lavish markup results in smaller data. We
may want to store it compressed, or load it on demand. We might even
have to make it compile-time optional for some use cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-08 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-05-21 19:02 ` Fwd: GSoC Intro - TUI interface for QMP Niteesh G. S.
2021-05-24 13:32 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-24 17:34 ` John Snow
2021-06-02 11:08 ` Bruno Piazera Larsen
2021-06-11 14:06 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy via
2021-05-26 15:35 ` Fwd: " Niteesh G. S.
2021-06-01 23:47 ` John Snow
2021-06-08 15:01 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2021-06-08 15:49 ` John Snow
2021-06-09 11:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-06-09 17:06 ` John Snow
2021-06-10 7:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2021-06-09 12:07 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-06-10 14:35 ` John Snow
2021-06-09 12:03 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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