Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Deprecate the -enable-hax option

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 25/06/2018 20:22, Thomas Huth wrote:
> We currently have got three ways of turning on the HAX accelerator:
> "-machine accel=hax", "-accel hax" and "-enable-hax". That's really
> confusing and overloaded. Since "-accel" is our preferred way to enable
> an accelerator nowadays, and "-accel hax" is even less to type than
> "-enable-hax", let's deprecate the "-enable-hax" option now.
> 
> Note: While "-enable-kvm" is available since a long time and can hardly be
> removed since it is used in a lot of upper layer tools and scripts, the
> "-enable-hax" option is still rather new and not very widespread yet, so
> I think that it should be OK if we remove this in a couple of releases again
> (we'll see whether someone complains after seeing the deprecation message -
> then we could still reconsider to keep it if there a well-founded reasons).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  Let's give this a try at least :-)

Sounds good, queued.

Paolo