Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > 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...
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
