Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 7] [UPDATE] DisplayState interface change

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paul Brook wrote:
>
> Something like that, yes.
>
> My understanding was that the plan is to have one DisplayState per image 
> source. At that point the device doesn't care whether it's "active" or not 
> (inactive DisplayStates will be the equivalent of /dev/null).
> If we still have a single DisplayState shared by multiple sources then 
> is_graphics_console is not a sufficient check to tell whether the VGA device 
> is active.
>
> I'm not sure that removing QEMUConsole without adding multiple DisplayStates 
> is feasible.
>   

I think this patch series is a big step in this direction.  The 
is_graphics_console is an artifact.  What we need to follow up this 
series with, is adding keyboard/mouse input to DisplayState, and pushing 
all the virtual terminal switching into TextConsole and cleaning 
TextConsole up to be a more clean virtual KVM.

If noone else takes this on, I'll add it to my queue.  I think it's a 
follow up series though to this one.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
>