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Re: [PATCH v3] ui: Print available display backends with '-display help'


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ui: Print available display backends with '-display help'
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 01:01:32 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2

Hi Thomas,

On 1/8/20 3:47 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> We already print availabled devices with "-device help", or available
> backends with "-netdev help" or "-chardev help". Let's provide a way
> for the users to query the available display backends, too.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
> ---
>  v3: Mention -display help in the qemu-doc, too (as suggested by Philippe)
> 
>  include/ui/console.h |  1 +
>  qemu-options.hx      |  3 ++-
>  ui/console.c         | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  vl.c                 |  5 +++++
>  4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/ui/console.h b/include/ui/console.h
> index 281f9c145b..f35b4fc082 100644
> --- a/include/ui/console.h
> +++ b/include/ui/console.h
> @@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ void qemu_display_register(QemuDisplay *ui);
>  bool qemu_display_find_default(DisplayOptions *opts);
>  void qemu_display_early_init(DisplayOptions *opts);
>  void qemu_display_init(DisplayState *ds, DisplayOptions *opts);
> +void qemu_display_help(void);
>  
>  /* vnc.c */
>  void vnc_display_init(const char *id, Error **errp);
> diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
> index e9d6231438..d593931664 100644
> --- a/qemu-options.hx
> +++ b/qemu-options.hx
> @@ -1586,7 +1586,8 @@ STEXI
>  @item -display @var{type}
>  @findex -display
>  Select type of display to use. This option is a replacement for the
> -old style -sdl/-curses/... options. Valid values for @var{type} are
> +old style -sdl/-curses/... options. Use @code{-display help} to list
> +the available display types. Valid values for @var{type} are
>  @table @option
>  @item sdl
>  Display video output via SDL (usually in a separate graphics
> diff --git a/ui/console.c b/ui/console.c
> index ac79d679f5..69339b028b 100644
> --- a/ui/console.c
> +++ b/ui/console.c
> @@ -2333,6 +2333,21 @@ void qemu_display_init(DisplayState *ds, 
> DisplayOptions *opts)
>      dpys[opts->type]->init(ds, opts);
>  }
>  
> +void qemu_display_help(void)
> +{
> +    int idx;
> +
> +    printf("Available display backend types:\n");
> +    for (idx = DISPLAY_TYPE_NONE; idx < DISPLAY_TYPE__MAX; idx++) {
> +        if (!dpys[idx]) {
> +            ui_module_load_one(DisplayType_str(idx));
> +        }
> +        if (dpys[idx]) {
> +            printf("%s\n",  DisplayType_str(dpys[idx]->type));

While listed in the man page, the "none" display is not listed here, any
clue?

> +        }
> +    }
> +}
> +
>  void qemu_chr_parse_vc(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevBackend *backend, Error **errp)
>  {
>      int val;
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 86474a55c9..ee15055ba2 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -1869,6 +1869,11 @@ static void parse_display(const char *p)
>  {
>      const char *opts;
>  
> +    if (is_help_option(p)) {
> +        qemu_display_help();
> +        exit(0);
> +    }
> +
>      if (strstart(p, "sdl", &opts)) {
>          /*
>           * sdl DisplayType needs hand-crafted parser instead of
> 



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