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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

On 11/25/2009 02:26 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> As such, I think there is still a place for the simple command line
> options like "-hda", "-serial" and my proposed "-debugcon", in addition
> to the full-featured connect-anything options and configuration files.
> That's all.
> 

I guess one question is if the simplified options could be better
implemented via some kind of builtin macros or translation submodule
rather than being treated as first-class options which they basically
are now.  Still, that's a future development task.

	-hpa