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

[Anthony Liguori]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> 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...

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