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