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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2019-08-15 15:14:28 +0100
committerGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>2019-08-21 10:42:36 +0200
commit73f46fef7400dc1dc6cb5e8914d3d1b3b673459f (patch)
treee9ecc7760c57078ee3932e5edb84a08367d8a871
parentdc2c037fd23ea3dcf2e13afda22c1c64ab56f96b (diff)
usb: reword -usb command-line option and mention xHCI
The -usb section of the man page is not very clear on what exactly -usb does and fails to mention xHCI as a modern alternative (-device nec-usb-xhci). Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-id: 20190815141428.29080-1-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--qemu-options.hx7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 9621e934c0..1fb362f06f 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -1436,12 +1436,15 @@ STEXI
ETEXI
DEF("usb", 0, QEMU_OPTION_usb,
- "-usb enable the USB driver (if it is not used by default yet)\n",
+ "-usb enable on-board USB host controller (if not enabled by default)\n",
QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
@item -usb
@findex -usb
-Enable the USB driver (if it is not used by default yet).
+Enable USB emulation on machine types with an on-board USB host controller (if
+not enabled by default). Note that on-board USB host controllers may not
+support USB 3.0. In this case @option{-device qemu-xhci} can be used instead
+on machines with PCI.
ETEXI
DEF("usbdevice", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_usbdevice,