On 06/12/2021 09.40, Thomas Huth wrote:
The HPET setting has been turned into a machine property a while ago
already, so we should finally do the next step and deprecate the
legacy CLI option, too.
While we're at it, add a proper help text for the machine property, too.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 6 ++++++
hw/i386/pc.c | 2 ++
qemu-options.hx | 2 +-
softmmu/vl.c | 1 +
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 5693abb663..1dfe69aa6a 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ form is preferred.
Using ``-drive if=none`` to configure the OTP device of the sifive_u
RISC-V machine is deprecated. Use ``-drive if=pflash`` instead.
+``-no-hpet`` (since 7.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The HPET setting has been turned into a machine property.
+Use ``-machine hpet=off`` instead.
[...]
Forgot to CC: the libvirt folks, doing so now.
Seems like libvirt is still using -no-hpet in some few spots, so I guess
these would need to be changed first, before we could finally remove this
option in QEMU?
Thomas
