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. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
