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@redhat.com> --- 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