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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:02:51 -0600
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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?

I prefer foo=bar syntax for consistency with the rest of QEMU.  Play 
around with it though, it's easy enough to change once you've gotten the 
patch working.  I'm open to persuasion too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Also, I agree that they should both be on by default, though I don't
> want to step on anyone's toes by hiding copyright/credit info.
> Though, note that only normal output is hidden. Errors are still
> displayed. Disabling the prompt by default but leaving the text
> is probably the way to go.
>
>
> Cory Fields