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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 07/09/09 17:46, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> I think we do want a way to say that this device provides graphics
> capability and have that exposed to through the monitor.

That is the case already.  There is both "info qdrv" and "-device ?". 
Right now they don't share code and print different formats which should 
probably be changed.

> But we also
> have to consider the case where a single device exposes multiple types
> of capabilities.

I think we already agreed to move to a bitmap model to handle that.

cheers,
   Gerd