On 2013-02-22 15:51, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> writes: > >> On 2013-02-22 15:17, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> writes: >>> >>>> On 2013-02-22 14:21, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>>> Hi Jan, >>>>> >>>>> Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> writes: >>>>> >>>>>> VGA is a misnomer, only some of our targets have it. Use the more >>>>>> generic term "display" instead. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, I responded to your previous note in my head and forgot to also >>>>> respond on the mailing list. >>>>> >>>>> We expose this "misnomer" a lot. For instance, qemu -vga cirrus. >>>> >>>> That's because qemu started for x86 only. No excuse to spread this >>>> further in new code. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> OTOH, the term "display" is used to indicate the backend via qemu >>>>> -display sdl. >>>>> >>>>> So calling the VGA tab "Display" after selecting '-display gtk' seems a >>>>> bit confusing to me. >>>>> >>>>> So I'm open to picking better naming but I think we should try to make >>>>> it consistent throughout QEMU. >>>> >>>> We can also call it "screen" or "guest display" - just not VGA, >>>> please. >>> >>> I don't care what we call it, I'm asking that if you want to change it >>> in one place, change it every where else too. >> >> For obvious reasons, -vga has to stay. > > We can introduce a new option that aliases this the -vga option.
No need, the new way is -device <your-favorite-graphic>. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
