Re: [PATCH for-6.0 0/6] Add HMP/QMP commands to query accelerator

[Roman Bolshakov]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 03:41:53PM +0100, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> On 11/16/20 2:10 PM, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
> > Management applications have no way to determine if certain accelerator
> > is available. That complicates discovery of non-KVM accelerators.
> 
> are we thinking about how to make this future-proof when it comes to
> modularization efforts, ie, when we get to fully modularized
> accelerator plugins?
> 
> Maybe too soon to consider, but still worth mentioning on my side I think.
> 

Hi Claudio,

I'd be happy to do it future-proof if you have something on the mind.
As far as I understand from the discussion, if we have /machine/accel
container, we can use QOM to query properties of the container including
accel name:
qom-get /machine/accel/type

Thanks,
Roman