Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On 9 July 2013 21:45, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: >> Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> writes: >>> 09.07.2013 22:37, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>> ERROR:/home/aliguori/git/qemu/tests/fw_cfg-test.c:63:test_fw_cfg_nographic: >>>> assertion failed (qfw_cfg_get_u16(fw_cfg, FW_CFG_NOGRAPHIC) == 0): (1 == >>>> 0) >>>> GTester: last random seed: R02S25031265f05e4d41efcf758c9ef6043b >>> >>> Sure, because the test is bogus. >> >> No, it's a guest ABI. You cannot change the guest ABI. > > 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. Regards, Anthony Liguori >> -display none != -nographic. >> >> nographic gives you -display none plus a stdio serial port (with muxing >> magic). >> >> -display none should not imply stdio serial port. The vc goes to a >> dummy display. That's a major semantic difference. > > None of these semantics have changed AFAICT. > > -- PMM
