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