Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting a sparc framebuffer from command line

[Bob Breuer <breuerr@mc.net>]

On 3/26/2013 6:13 AM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> It looks like we will have more framebuffers beside TCX in the near future.
> One way to use them would be to make new machines combining a base
> machine name with a framebuffer name, like ss5tcx and ss5cg3, but I
> guess this would produce too many machines if we have more than 2
> framebuffers.
> 
> Should the "-vga" option be (mis)used for selecting a framebuffer?
> They are not called "VGA" in the wild, but maybe the name VGA is
> obvious enough for a modern user? After all there is already a "-hda"
> option in the SPARCStation-5 emulation command line, although in the
> non-emulating world no one calls scsi disk "hda".
> 
> Or should an architecture-specific option, like -framebuffer be added?
> 

I would like to see -device used.  With a better sbus framework, adding
multiple video devices on sparc32 should be really easy to do.

I just looked at how "-device cirrus-vga" works.  To get -device to
override the default video, we need to add minimal support into vl.c to
recognize each video device and handle the default_vga flag.  Then
sparc32 could limit itself to handling either VGA_NONE or VGA_STD when
it adds the default video.

Bob