[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Introduce -display argument

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/15/2011 09:07 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 15 March 2011 12:36,<Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> From: Jes Sorensen<Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>>
>> This patch introduces a -display argument which consolidates the
>> setting of the display mode. Valid options are:
>> sdl/curses/default/serial (serial is equivalent to -nographic)
> So I still think that we should not be including any new
> -display subargument which mirrors the behaviour of -nographic.
>
> -display represents an opportunity to provide a set of orthogonal
> command line options which affect the handling of particular
> devices; it ought to mean "what happens to VGA/video output?",
> and should not change the behaviour of any other devices.
>
> -nographic is effectively a convenience shortcut which changes
> the behaviour of several different devices (display, serial,
> parallel, at least). It doesn't belong under '-display' from
> an orthogonality argument, and people who want it because it
> is a shortcut will be better served by the existing '-nographic'
> because it's less typing than '-display serial' anyway.

Yeah, I think I agree.  We shouldn't have a -display nographic.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> (Ideally we should document '-nographic' by saying that it
> is equivalent to some set of other options including
> -display none -serial stdio and whatever else it does.)
>
> -- PMM