Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v14 3/4] introduce pvevent device to deal with panicked event

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 14/03/2013 09:15, Hu Tao ha scritto:
> pvevent device is used to send guest panic event from guest to qemu.
> 
> When guest panic happens, pvevent device driver will write a event
> number to IO port 0x505(which is the IO port occupied by pvevent device,
> by default). On receiving the event, pvevent device will pause guest
> cpu(s), and send a qmp event QEVENT_GUEST_PANICKED.  
> 
> TODO: make the IO port configurable

The port is already configurable as far as the device is concerned; when
you add the port to the PC boards you will have to wind up fw-cfg.

So these patches can go in already, with the sole change that the HID
must be in the QEMU namespace rather than MSFT.

Paolo