Re: Command line QAPIfication and -readconfig

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/11/20 11:35, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > IOW, I'd suggest we focus effort on introducing the new config file format
> > based on QAPI first, and once that exists, then convert these sample
> > config files in docs/config, and deprecate -readconfig.
>
> Fine with me. That would make introducing the new config file format a
> priority, though, even if it can't support every option yet (similar to
> -readconfig). I didn't have the impression so far that we are planning
> to do that. Is anyone working on it?

Indeed, my plan was to focus on QMP-based configuration, not on 
configuration file formats.

However I hit the same snag, in that my patches broke -readconfig for 
-object, -M and -accel.  I'm thinking of decoupling config file parsing 
from QemuOpts, using QDicts instead and moving the QemuOpts part into 
softmmu/vl.c.

Paolo