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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ui/console: Note in '-display help' that some backends support suboptions
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 09:47:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51733c53-c836-4d7f-9f0f-a40e5376f83a@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240731154136.3494621-4-peter.maydell@linaro.org>

On 31/7/24 17:41, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Currently '-display help' only prints the available backends. Some
> of those backends support suboptions (e.g. '-display gtk,gl=on').
> Mention that in the help output, and point the user to where they
> might be able to find more information about the suboptions.
> The new output looks like this:
> 
> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -display help
> Available display backend types:
> none
> gtk
> sdl
> egl-headless
> curses
> spice-app
> dbus
> 
> Some display backends support suboptions, which can be set with
>     -display backend,option=value,option=value...
> For a short list of the suboptions for each display, see the top-level -help output; more detail is in the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> The ideal here would be to programmatically list all the
> suboptions, so you could say '-display gtk,help', but that
> seems like a lot of work and I'm not entirely sure how
> to do it :-)
> ---
>   ui/console.c | 5 +++++
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>



  reply	other threads:[~2024-08-06  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-31 15:41 [PATCH 0/3] virtio-gpu-gl: Improve OpenGL and related display error messages Peter Maydell
2024-07-31 15:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] hw/display/virtio-gpu: Improve "opengl is not available" error message Peter Maydell
2024-08-06  7:33   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-08-06 13:37   ` Alex Bennée
2024-07-31 15:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] system/vl.c: Expand OpenGL related errors Peter Maydell
2024-08-06  7:31   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-08-06 13:41   ` Alex Bennée
2024-08-06 15:20     ` Antonio Caggiano
2024-08-06 19:27       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2024-07-31 15:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] ui/console: Note in '-display help' that some backends support suboptions Peter Maydell
2024-08-06  7:47   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2024-07-31 15:59 ` [PATCH 0/3] virtio-gpu-gl: Improve OpenGL and related display error messages Marc-André Lureau
2024-08-06 12:46   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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