Re: [PATCH 2/3] system/vl.c: Expand OpenGL related errors

[Alex Bennée]

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> Expand the OpenGL related error messages we produce for various
> "OpenGL not present/not supported" cases, to hopefully guide the
> user towards how to fix things.
>
> Now if the user tries to enable GL on a backend that doesn't
> support it the error message is a bit more precise:
>
> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -device virtio-gpu-gl -display curses,gl=on
> qemu-system-aarch64: OpenGL is not supported by display backend 'curses'
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
>  system/vl.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/system/vl.c b/system/vl.c
> index 9e8f16f1551..213ee6a6a92 100644
> --- a/system/vl.c
> +++ b/system/vl.c
> @@ -1973,9 +1973,10 @@ static void qemu_create_early_backends(void)
>  
>      if (dpy.has_gl && dpy.gl != DISPLAYGL_MODE_OFF && display_opengl == 0) {
>  #if defined(CONFIG_OPENGL)
> -        error_report("OpenGL is not supported by the display");
> +        error_report("OpenGL is not supported by display backend '%s'",
> +                     DisplayType_str(dpy.type));
>  #else
> -        error_report("OpenGL support is disabled");
> +        error_report("OpenGL support was disabled when QEMU was
>      compiled");

Maybe "OpenGL support was not enabled in this build of QEMU"?

Anyway:

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>



>  #endif
>          exit(1);
>      }

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro