On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:44 -0800, Garman, Scott A wrote: > However, one thing I feel the need to run by Richard, as he expressed > some preferences with how the poky-qemu script would work with regard to > options. > > Richard: Criping's patch would remove the standalone options we had to > the poky-qemu script (e.g, nographic, serial) and instead requires the > user to specify them in one command option which can take any qemu > command switch. > > So for example: > > poky-qemu qemux86 nographic > > would become: > > poky-qemu qemux86 "<-nographic>" > > The benefit of this is that this allows the user to specify any qemu > option they wish. Previously they were limited by the options we allowed > them to specify (which were quite limited). > > I tend to feel that this approach is more flexible, and scales better > than having to support each and every qemu option with our own script > syntax. Is this acceptable, or should we continue to support our own > custom options in addition to Criping's new approach?
My gut feeling is that having some simplified way to trigger possibly complex option combinations is still desirable but adding a way to pass additional custom commandline is equally good. This gives us the maximum flexibility moving forwards but keeps the script easy to use? Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
