From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35452) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fEiiH-0003Fu-8F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2018 17:58:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fEiiE-0003u9-67 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2018 17:58:01 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:54050 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fEiiE-0003tB-0r for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2018 17:57:58 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A28A8190282 for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 21:57:56 +0000 (UTC) References: <1525453270-23074-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 23:57:53 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1525453270-23074-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] Removal of deprecated -no-kvm* options List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Huth , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: berrange@redhat.com, Markus Armbruster On 04/05/2018 19:01, Thomas Huth wrote: > The -no-kvm* options are a remainder of the ancient "qemu-kvm" > fork. They have never been officially documented in our qemu-doc, > they have been marked as deprecated in the sources since a very > long time, and we've marked them as deprecated in our qemu-doc > since QEMU v2.10. So far I haven't seen any complaints that we > should keep them, so it's time to remove these old parameters now. > > While I'm at it, this patch series also removes a left-over from > the "-tdf" option (which has been removed with QEMU v2.12) and > fixes a deficiency in the option parsing code that has been > revealed by the remainder of the "-tdf" option. > > Thomas Huth (5): > qemu-options: Remove remainders of the -tdf option > qemu-options: Bail out on unsupported options instead of silently > ignoring them > qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-pit-reinjection > qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm-irqchip > qemu-options: Remove deprecated -no-kvm I'm not that sure anymore about -no-kvm. It can come in handy for distros (*cough* RHEL *cough) that only ship a qemu-kvm binary with default accelerator "-machine accel=kvm:tcg". Yeah, "-accel tcg" is only a few characters later, but it is a relatively recent addition. Paolo