Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui/cocoa.m: remove open dialog code

[Programmingkid]

On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 23 September 2015 at 14:38, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:58 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> 
>>> On 10 September 2015 at 17:49, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Remove the open dialog code that runs when no arguments are supplied with
>>>> QEMU.
>>>> Not everyone needs a hard drive or cdrom to boot their target. A user might
>>>> only
>>>> need to use their target's bios to do work. With that said, this patch
>>>> removes
>>>> the unneeded open dialog code.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: John Arbuckle <address@hidden>
>>> 
>>> OK, I think I agree we should drop this dialog box. For the benefit
>>> of people who try to start QEMU from the Finder, could you make it
>>> do "if we have one argument and it is '-psn' then bring up a dialog
>>> box saying "Please start QEMU from the command line with appropriate
>>> arguments" ?
>> 
>> We could do this. I'm thinking a dialog box with a continue and a
>> quit button. That ok?
> 
> Do we have any machines where continuing to run with no arguments is actually
> useful?

qemu-system-ppc does have openbios. This firmware does
have a whole environment that the user could work on. I 
use to study the forth language using it.