From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41293) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1BFw-0007em-JY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:46:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1BFq-0008CL-Gw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:46:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48164) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1BFq-0008CE-76 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 03:46:18 -0500 From: Markus Armbruster References: <20140108200217.GA4094@ERROL.INI.CMU.EDU> <52CDCDA2.4040206@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:46:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <52CDCDA2.4040206@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:13:54 +0100") Message-ID: <878uup4k6i.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add option to disable FDC from ISA bus and ACPI on i386 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, "Gabriel L. Somlo" , imammedo@redhat.com, lersek@redhat.com Paolo Bonzini 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. [...]