On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 09:59, Pavel Dovgalyuk <dovga...@ispras.ru> wrote: > To fill the combo box in CPU selection form we run QEMU with "-cpu help" > command and parse its > output. > > The format of this list depends on target. Therefore our parsing code does > not look good (and also > may corrupt someday). > > Is there a better way of requesting this information?
Yes, and you list it below... > Or we should do one of the following: > > 1. Patch all targets and make the uniform "-cpu help" output format > > 2. Add QMP command for requesting this list. ...you should use QMP. The whole point of that protocol is to be a guaranteed-not-to-break-or-change-format machine readable way to query properties of QEMU. Don't try to hand-parse the human-readable help output, please. thanks -- PMM
