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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 13/19] unimplemented-device: Remove user_creatable


From: Eduardo Habkost
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 13/19] unimplemented-device: Remove user_creatable flag
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 10:54:45 -0300
User-agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04)

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 02:38:15PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 3 April 2017 at 14:34, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be better to just not add that, rather than
> >> add it and then delete it?
> >
> > The device was already user-creatable
> 
> It doesn't seem to be:
> 
>  ./build/x86/arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -M virt -device
> unimplemented-device,size=1024,name=foo
> qemu-system-arm: Device unimplemented-device can not be dynamically 
> instantiated

This restriction is implemented by the "virt" machine, not by the
device type itself.

This, on the other hand, currently works:
  $ qemu-system-x86_64 -M q35 -device unimplemented-device,size=1024,name=foo

-- 
Eduardo



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