[PATCH 0/3] softmmu/vl: Deprecate old and crufty display options

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Mon Jul 12 08:05:12 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 16:54:10 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> -display sdl uses a hand-crafted parser in vl.c, which is quite ugly
> since the other parts of -display have been QAPIfied already. A straight
> conversion to QAPI is not advisable since the "alt_grab" and "ctrl_grab"
> parameters are not the best solution anyway. So this patch series
> introduces a new "grab-mod" parameter as replacement instead and then
> deprecates the old and crufty options.
> 
> While we're at it, the third patch also suggests to deprecated the
> old -sdl and -curses top-level options.
> 
> Thomas Huth (3):
>   softmmu/vl: Add a "grab-mod" parameter to the -display sdl option
>   softmmu/vl: Deprecate the old grab options
>   softmmu/vl: Deprecate the -sdl and -curses option

libvirt doesn't use any of those old options any more so:

on behalf of libvirt:

ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>




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