On 29/11/19 13:16, Igor Mammedov wrote: > As for "-m", I'd make it just an alias that translates > -m/mem-path/mem-prealloc
I think we should just deprecate -mem-path/-mem-prealloc in 5.0. CCing Thomas as mister deprecation. :) > combination to appropriate '-object' for '-machine memdev' consumption. > That should cover compat purposes for old machines and the rest of > -m options (maxmem/slots) would be aliased to appropriate machine options. > > That will allow us to get rid of ad-hoc '-m' parser. After that it would > be possible to deprecate '-m' in favor of machine properties, but that > probably will get quite a push back so unless I find compelling reason > to do it I won't care much as '-m' would be a lightweight shim over > machine properties. Well, deprecation and ultimately removal is always a long path. However, I understand your plan better now and having "-machine memdev" makes sense if you want to also move/alias "-m maxmem"/"-m slots" from "-m" to "-machine". So ultimately you'd have two ways of configuring memory: - -m N,maxmem=P,slots=Q " -machine memdev=M,maxmem=P,slots=Q Paolo
