From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>,
Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] qemu-doc: Remove paragraph about requiring a HD image with -kernel
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:01:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191001110111.4870-1-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
The need for specifying "-hda" together with "-kernel" has been removed in
commit 57a46d057995 ("Convert linux bootrom to external rom and fw_cfg"),
almost 10 years ago, so let's remove this description from our documentation
now, too.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
qemu-doc.texi | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
index 2ba6c90c08..3c5022050f 100644
--- a/qemu-doc.texi
+++ b/qemu-doc.texi
@@ -906,10 +906,6 @@ Use @option{-kernel} to provide the Linux kernel image and
@option{-append} to give the kernel command line arguments. The
@option{-initrd} option can be used to provide an INITRD image.
-When using the direct Linux boot, a disk image for the first hard disk
-@file{hda} is required because its boot sector is used to launch the
-Linux kernel.
-
If you do not need graphical output, you can disable it and redirect
the virtual serial port and the QEMU monitor to the console with the
@option{-nographic} option. The typical command line is:
--
2.18.1
next reply other threads:[~2019-10-01 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-01 11:01 Thomas Huth [this message]
2019-10-01 11:11 ` [PATCH] qemu-doc: Remove paragraph about requiring a HD image with -kernel Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-10-01 11:11 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2019-10-01 12:04 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-10-01 12:04 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-10-01 18:56 ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-10-21 16:04 ` Laurent Vivier
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