From 7c8d295b274f18f582b931c59dba0cba94f6ca7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20P=2E=20Berrang=C3=A9?= Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 13:32:19 +0100 Subject: hw/misc: deprecate the 'sga' device MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is obsolete since SeaBIOS 1.11.0 introduced native support for sending messages to the serial console.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 Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann Message-Id: <20210909123219.862652-1-berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') 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 SeaBIOS 1.11.0 onwards +contains native support for this feature and thus use of the option +ROM approach is obsolete.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 '''''''''''''''''''' -- cgit v1.1