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

[Igor Mammedov]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 22:41:40 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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...
> 

I'll look into it.

> Paolo
> 
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