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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 00/16] Rework SMP parameters
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Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, ehabkost@redhat.com, agraf@suse.de, pbonzini@redhat.com, dgibson@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au

On 10.06.2016 19:40, Andrew Jones wrote:
> This series is a first step in eliminating smp_* global
> variables (the last patch gets rid of two of them!) And, it's
> a first step in deprecating '-smp' in favor of using machine
> properties, e.g.
>  qemu -machine pc,sockets=2,cores=2,threads=2,maxcpus=8,cpus=8 ...

Why isn't '-smp' good enough anymore so that it got to be deprecated?

 Thomas