Re: [PATCH 00/17] qemu: Drop QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE part 2

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On 01/22/2016 02:30 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> This is the second series dropping QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE. It handles
> qemu_command.c and all remaining uses of QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE.
> 
> Every qemu binary after v0.12.1 has the -device option, but many
> platforms cannot actually use it, because they are based around
> hardcoded machine models that cannot be extended. For these machine
> types, old style options work in _some_ scenarios, basically only
> situations where we are specifying host side config, where modern
> machines would use -chardev and -netdev.
> 
> Those code paths are already preserved for the only scenario that's
> actually been tested to work (qemu-system-arm -M vexpress and some
> other arm pieces), so they aren't going anywhere. But all other old
> style command line options can be dropped AFAICT. See individual
> patches for descriptions.
> 

Note, I'm pausing this series for now. I'm going to focus on getting the test
suite bits committed before I rebase and revive this.

thanks,
Cole

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