On 20/09/2016 13:04, Markus Armbruster wrote: > I'm not proposing to get rid of -serial. I'm proposing to use it as > indicator of old code in need of modernization. A properly QOMified > serial device should be "configurable with non-legacy means". Devices > that aren't are probably not QOMified. [...] > > > The Raspberry Pi board is probably one of the best examples. Its only > > snag is that one of the devices (hw/arm/bcm2835_peripherals.c) uses > > serial_hds[]. > > Yes, but it uses it to configure QOMified devices, doesn't it? > It should be possible to configure these with non-legacy means, at least > in theory.
The devices are QOMified, but because there is more than one you cannot hack their configuration with -global. Paolo
