On 15.03.2011, at 15:07, Peter Maydell wrote: > 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.)
Ideally it should also be implemented as such :) Alex
