On 06/08/2010 04:05 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 08.06.2010, at 18:15, Anthony Liguori wrote:
4) expose everything to the user, at the cost of regretting it later. This is
the current patchset.
One "smart way to implement default devices" could be an inclusion mechanism
where a machine can ask qemu to read other config files. Then you'd have config files
for the default serial/parallel/etc. This could also be implemented on top of choices
2/3/4 though.
Default devices are a real pain. Fortunately, we only mess with it in s390 so
I'm fairly certain we can simplify things considerable. It's just not
something I wanted to tackle in this series.
Wait, what? The only "default" device we have on s390 is virtio-console - and
that's basically the same as having VGA output on x86 enabled by default, no?
What I was saying is that all the .no_vga/.no_serial/.use_virtcon bits
in QEMUMachine are strictly due to s390. Since the use of these are so
specific, it'll be fairly easy to eliminate them in a more natural way.
What most other boards do is simply ignore whatever vl.c does FWIW.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
