On 15 March 2011 12:36, <jes.soren...@redhat.com> wrote: > From: Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com> > > This patch introduces a -display argument which consolidates the > setting of the display mode. Valid options are: > sdl/curses/default/serial (serial is equivalent to -nographic)
So I still think that we should not be including any new -display subargument which mirrors the behaviour of -nographic. -display represents an opportunity to provide a set of orthogonal command line options which affect the handling of particular devices; it ought to mean "what happens to VGA/video output?", and should not change the behaviour of any other devices. -nographic is effectively a convenience shortcut which changes the behaviour of several different devices (display, serial, parallel, at least). It doesn't belong under '-display' from an orthogonality argument, and people who want it because it is a shortcut will be better served by the existing '-nographic' because it's less typing than '-display serial' anyway. (Ideally we should document '-nographic' by saying that it is equivalent to some set of other options including -display none -serial stdio and whatever else it does.) -- PMM
