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| author | Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> | 2021-09-09 13:32:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> | 2021-11-02 17:24:18 +0100 |
| commit | 7c8d295b274f18f582b931c59dba0cba94f6ca7a (patch) | |
| tree | a67ccaf7cd6002ba478c67fdc4ee169174d21431 /docs/about | |
| parent | 014b00cc0a6b975fd67d7a1d5d49588c4d325a40 (diff) | |
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hw/misc: deprecate the 'sga' device
This is obsolete since SeaBIOS 1.11.0 introduced native support for
sending messages to the serial console. The new support can be
activated using -machine graphics=off on x86 targets.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210909123219.862652-1-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index be19317..25b7ec8 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -313,6 +313,16 @@ full SCSI support. Use virtio-scsi instead when SCSI passthrough is required. Note this also applies to ``-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=on|off``, which is an alias. +``-device sga`` (since 6.2) +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +The ``sga`` device loads an option ROM for x86 targets which enables +SeaBIOS to send messages to the serial console. SeaBIOS 1.11.0 onwards +contains native support for this feature and thus use of the option +ROM approach is obsolete. The native SeaBIOS support can be activated +by using ``-machine graphics=off``. + + Block device options '''''''''''''''''''' |