Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] display: stop using DT_NOGRAPHIC, use DT_NONE

[Peter Maydell]

On 9 July 2013 22:24, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> 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...

-- PMM