From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] display: stop using DT_NOGRAPHIC, use DT_NONE
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:03:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hag3bdcw.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9b0VGhpJXVDzatFWQUYw59U0bwYDWGZmvevvQBYMv3GA@mail.gmail.com>
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> On 9 July 2013 22:24, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>>> Why the heck are we telling the guest that the user
>>> specified -nographic anyhow? It's a dumb guest ABI...
>>
>> I believe OpenBIOS uses this to determine if it should display messages
>> on serial or on the graphic display.
>>
>> It's actually a useful ABI in that regard.
>
> OK, I might go for "useful but misnamed"; we should
> presumably have a command line option to set it
> cleanly (ie independently of display type), and add
> that to the list of random things -nographic does...
I wouldn't be opposed to that but whatever we do, it should be
documented and should not break 'make check'.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> -- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 12:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] display: stop using DT_NOGRAPHIC, use DT_NONE Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 10:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 11:24 ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 11:29 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 11:34 ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 11:43 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 11:50 ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 12:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 11:45 ` Andreas Färber
2013-06-28 11:50 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 11:55 ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 12:05 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 12:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 12:09 ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 11:56 ` Andreas Färber
2013-06-28 12:05 ` Andreas Färber
2013-06-28 12:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-09 18:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-09 19:00 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-07-09 20:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-09 21:18 ` Peter Maydell
2013-07-09 21:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-09 21:36 ` Peter Maydell
2013-07-09 22:03 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2013-07-16 11:10 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-07-10 4:45 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-07-10 5:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2013-07-16 11:35 ` Peter Maydell
2013-07-10 4:18 ` Michael Tokarev
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