Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add option to disable FDC from ISA bus and ACPI on i386

[Markus Armbruster]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> Il 08/01/2014 21:02, Gabriel L. Somlo ha scritto:
>> Add i386 command line option "-no-fdc", which allows guests to omit the
>> configuration of a floppy controller. Applies on top of my previous patch
>> titled "Add DSDT node for AppleSMC"
>
> I think we need to provide a mechanism for machine-specific options.
> Options like this one does not scale.

-machine?  It already has many keys that really apply to only a few
machines.  Sticking in one more won't kill us.

It sure would be nice if -machine accepted exactly the keys that
actually work.

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