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diff --git a/docs/devel/writing-monitor-commands.rst b/docs/devel/writing-monitor-commands.rst index b87992d..b3e2c84 100644 --- a/docs/devel/writing-monitor-commands.rst +++ b/docs/devel/writing-monitor-commands.rst @@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ For an in-depth introduction to the QAPI framework, please refer to docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt. For documentation about the QMP protocol, start with docs/interop/qmp-intro.txt. +New commands may be implemented in QMP only. New HMP commands should be +implemented on top of QMP. The typical HMP command wraps around an +equivalent QMP command, but HMP convenience commands built from QMP +building blocks are also fine. The long term goal is to make all +existing HMP commands conform to this, to fully isolate HMP from the +internals of QEMU. Refer to the `Writing a debugging aid returning +unstructured text`_ section for further guidance on commands that +would have traditionally been HMP only. Overview -------- |