Re: [PATCH for-6.0] accel: Wire accel to /machine

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:46:22AM +0300, Roman Bolshakov wrote: > An outstanding issue is whether management applications can rely on the > value of /machine/accel/type and output of qom-list-types command [2][3] > to get current and present accels? > > i.e. would it be ok if libvirt assumes that everything up to the first > dash in the accel type is the name of the accel (as specified via -M > accel=ACCEL flag) when it performs QEMU probing? Hmm, I think it is not nice - we shouldn't have to parse the accel type names - IMHO typenames should be considered arbitrary opaque strings, even if they'll not be expected to change.