Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support for loading devices as dynamic libraries

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Dominik Żeromski <address@hidden> wrote:
> Adding support for loading DSO with -device option.
>
> Example Makefile for out of tree modules:

QEMU does not have a stable ABI for devices.  There is a lot of device
model refactoring happening right now for multithreaded MMIO/PIO
dispatch and taking advantage of QEMU Object Model.  A stable ABI
hinders those kinds of improvements.

Send device model patches upstream.  That way you avoid the
maintenance overhead of out-of-tree modules and the QEMU community
doesn't need to provide a stable ABI.

Stefan