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authorDaniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>2021-09-09 13:32:19 +0100
committerGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>2021-11-02 17:24:18 +0100
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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This is obsolete since SeaBIOS 1.11.0 introduced native support for sending messages to the serial console.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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@@ -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+ROM approach is obsolete.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
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