On a Thursday in 2022, Thomas Huth wrote:
>The HPET setting has been turned into a machine property a while ago
>already, so we should finally do the next step and deprecate the
>legacy CLI option, too.
>
>Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>---
> v2:
> - Rebased to current version from master branch / adjusted version info
> - Dropped the descrpition in hw/i386/pc.c (already done via another patch)
>
> Note: The "hpet" property should now show up in the output of the
> "query-command-line-options" QMP command since commit 2f129fc107b4a, so
> it should be feasible for libvirt now to properly probe for the property .
>
> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 6 ++++++
> softmmu/vl.c              | 1 +
> qemu-options.hx           | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>

Jano