On 2019-01-14 17:31, Peter Maydell wrote: > We prohibit -device foo for non-pluggable devices: > $ ./build/all/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -device i8257 > qemu-system-x86_64: -device i8257: Parameter 'driver' expects > pluggable device type > > And we suppress them from "-device help" output too. > > But we still allow the user to do this: > > $ ./build/all/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -device i8257,help > i8257 options: > dshift=<int32> > base=<int32> > pageh-base=<int32> > page-base=<int32>
Could this still be sometimes useful, e.g. when a device is configured with the "-global" parameter? Thomas
