On 9 July 2013 22:24, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@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... -- PMM
