From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Cory Fields <FOSS@atlastechnologiesinc.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:44:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090209084449.GB20629@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902071320.40457.FOSS@atlastechnologiesinc.com>
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 01:20:40PM -0500, Cory Fields wrote:
> Thanks for the direction, will submit patches to the appropriate places.
>
> I messed around with extending the -boot syntax as you suggested,
> but I think boot c,verbose=off,prompt=off is a little cumbersome.
> boot c,quiet,noprompt seems cleaner. Thoughts?
The rest of QEMU is converging on using the same name=val syntax for
optional args, even for boolean args. Thus I think we should follow
that pattern here too. If we pick sensible defaults, so these flags
don't need to be specified most of the time, then its not a big deal
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-07 0:17 [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output Cory Fields
2009-02-06 23:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-07 18:20 ` Cory Fields
2009-02-09 8:44 ` Daniel P. Berrange [this message]
[not found] ` <200902071303.20187.Cory@atlastechnologiesinc.com>
2009-02-08 0:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-07 0:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] Define new channels for quietboot and fastboot Cory Fields
2009-02-07 0:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] add args for fastboot and quietboot Cory Fields
2009-02-07 0:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] probe for quietboot in vgabios Cory Fields
2009-02-07 0:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] probe for quietboot and fastboot in rombios Cory Fields
2009-02-07 11:09 ` [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output Daniel P. Berrange
2009-02-07 16:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-07 11:13 ` Jan Kiszka
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2009-06-10 10:32 David Lindsay
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