From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] Introduce -display argument
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:41:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7E0D16.8070405@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=32R1NroUj8VWk7wz+RtE0ABTLHDuYPRPJ0Vuv@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/14/11 13:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 March 2011 12:28, <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> wrote:
>> This patch introduces a -display argument which consolidates the
>> setting of the display mode. Valid options are:
>> sdl/curses/default/nographic
>
> I wasn't expecting to see "nographic" as an option here -- my
> preference would be to retain the existing '-nographic' switch
> for backwards-compatibility, but '-display foo' should only
> affect the video type. (ie the equivalent of '-nographic' ought
> to be a set of options including '-display none', '-serial mon:stdio'
> and so on, not a single '-display:nographic').
It would be easy to remove it from the -display option, but I think it
is fair to keep it in. I was pretty much trying to cover every DT_foo
option we have. If nographic is going away as a display option, we
should make it in the code that it is for legacy support only.
Cheers,
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-14 12:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Introduce -display and make VNC optional Jes.Sorensen
2011-03-14 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Introduce -display argument Jes.Sorensen
2011-03-14 12:40 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2011-03-14 12:41 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2011-03-14 13:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-14 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Introduce -display none Jes.Sorensen
2011-03-14 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] error message if user specifies SDL cmd line option when SDL is disabled Jes.Sorensen
2011-03-14 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] error message if user specifies curses on cmd line when curses " Jes.Sorensen
2011-03-14 12:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Make VNC support optional Jes.Sorensen
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