From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kk0j7-0003HZ-Ku for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:10:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kk0j3-0003G8-Ji for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:10:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38797 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kk0j3-0003G2-CC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:10:33 -0400 Received: from fe02x01-cgp.akado.ru ([77.232.31.161]:54565 helo=akado.ru) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kk0j2-0000fc-5G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:10:32 -0400 Received: from av1474.oops ([10.0.66.9] verified) by fe02-cgp.akado.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 28306881 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:09:50 +0400 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:09:51 +0400 (MSD) From: malc Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5335] Change the way video graphics adapter is selected In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Blue Swirl wrote: > On 9/28/08, malc wrote: >> Revision: 5335 >> http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5335 >> Author: malc >> Date: 2008-09-28 00:42:05 +0000 (Sun, 28 Sep 2008) >> >> Log Message: >> ----------- >> Change the way video graphics adapter is selected >> >> Instead of having (current)three command line switches -std-vga, >> -cirrusvga and -vmwarevga, provide one -vga switch which takes >> an argument, so that: >> qemu -std-vga becomes qemu -vga std >> qemu -cirrusvga becomes qemu -vga cirrus >> qemu -vmwarevga becomes qemu -vga vmware > > I'd prefer a more generic syntax, like -drive options: > -displayhw model=vga,type=std > -displayhw model=vga,type=std > -displayhw model=vga,type=std > -displayhw model=tcx,type=hardwarecursor > > Then this option would be useful for non-VGA targets. I don't see -vga > xxx as an improvement over -xxx-vga. It wasn't intended to be an improvement to the current stuff, that said i belive it is. The goal was to find a way to provide an option (later commit) for controlling the retrace stuff, i could have added yet another command line switch for that, but it makes no sense in isolation. [..snip..] -- mailto:av1474@comtv.ru