Re: [PATCH for-5.2 4/4] qemu-option: warn for short-form boolean options

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/11/20 22:22, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> shall we also deprecate short forms for -cpu model,[feat|+feat|-feat]
> and in the end allow only -device compatible form i.e. -cpu type,feat=[on|off]
>
> that would let us drop custom
>    x86_cpu_parse_featurestr,
>    ppc_cpu_parse_featurestr,
>    sparc_cpu_parse_features
>
> and a bunch of cpu_class_by_name, where almost each target does its
> magic conversion of cpu_model to the type (which ranges from various
> prefix/suffix shuffling to completely ignoring cpu_model and returning
> a fixed cpu type)

Yes please. :)  But I would prefer someone else to do the work because I 
have quite some KVM backlog...

Paolo