On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 02:59:10PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 22/06/2020 13.29, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Add deprecation message to the audio init function.
> >
> > Factor out audio initialization and call that from
> > both audio init and realize, so setting audiodev via
> > -global is enough to properly initialize pcspk.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > hw/audio/pcspk.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
> > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> [...]
> > +static int pcspk_audio_init_soundhw(ISABus *bus)
> > +{
> > + PCSpkState *s = pcspk_state;
> > +
> > + warn_report("'-soundhw pcspk' is deprecated, "
> > + "please set a backend using '-global isa-pcspk.audiodev=<name>' instead");
> > + return pcspk_audio_init(s);
> > +}
>
> While "-soundhw pcspk" is quite easy to use for the average user, I
> think the "-global" options will be quite hard to figure out, especially
> once this deprecation message got removed again when -soundhw has been
> deleted.
See also patch 19/19.
> Could you maybe add a description how to configure the
> pc-speaker to docs/system/target-i386-desc.rst.inc, too?
Makes sense indeed.
take care,
Gerd
