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 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list