From nobody Wed Nov 12 08:32:51 2025 Delivered-To: importer@patchew.org Received-SPF: pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.51.188.17; envelope-from=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; helo=lists.gnu.org; Authentication-Results: mx.zohomail.com; spf=pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; dmarc=fail(p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1569927789; cv=none; d=zoho.com; s=zohoarc; b=BzqJ4VxwukcgT0zZmcoIC3WWm0ugAC4FZKPta9JWScjmr0cWuMKn+3PPapA2JoUctjIX4LHYKVWS5vV1ki/+fpS93mQR2YbCcghtM8KH1EvXSw7iUzb5qXLG9TMTmNupkr3ecKU0/tbj1aC4T95IP4q/r/k8H+bIm1sp6zJn4zk= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zoho.com; s=zohoarc; t=1569927789; h=Cc:Date:From:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Id:List-Archive:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:Message-ID:Sender:Subject:To:ARC-Authentication-Results; bh=8ZuRotycWiYMMAjhRiasrCd8jU71NmDfMe4rlOdr2A0=; b=aPoZQwgfMa2t0lTr8iim9rKAhQUYd/FgOysKrdvt5bIjYE2bJzUgl1eyUeTKZuUweWxPoWujhxpFgsadTPrgFO8ia5wObnqnaxAhoWyHrlrtR6blQJjRPkUyB8usJDJNlvfV3FCPX3LNNlWoti+boLYxIcC3wVj4VrlRyle5uTM= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.zoho.com; spf=pass (zoho.com: domain of gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org; dmarc=fail header.from= (p=none dis=none) header.from= Return-Path: Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 156992778919846.18716177461533; Tue, 1 Oct 2019 04:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([::1]:40408 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFFvn-0003VN-Im for importer@patchew.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:02:59 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54013) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFFuG-0002wP-50 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:01:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFFuE-0005FS-PG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:01:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFFuE-0005Er-Jk; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 07:01:22 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51848309321D; Tue, 1 Oct 2019 11:01:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thuth.com (ovpn-116-70.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.70]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88A75D6D0; Tue, 1 Oct 2019 11:01:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Thomas Huth To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?q?Philippe=20Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= Subject: [PATCH] qemu-doc: Remove paragraph about requiring a HD image with -kernel Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 13:01:11 +0200 Message-Id: <20191001110111.4870-1-thuth@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.45]); Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:01:21 +0000 (UTC) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf , Laszlo Ersek , Gerd Hoffmann Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+importer=patchew.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The need for specifying "-hda" together with "-kernel" has been removed in commit 57a46d057995 ("Convert linux bootrom to external rom and fw_cfg"), almost 10 years ago, so let's remove this description from our documentation now, too. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella --- qemu-doc.texi | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 2ba6c90c08..3c5022050f 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -906,10 +906,6 @@ Use @option{-kernel} to provide the Linux kernel image= and @option{-append} to give the kernel command line arguments. The @option{-initrd} option can be used to provide an INITRD image. =20 -When using the direct Linux boot, a disk image for the first hard disk -@file{hda} is required because its boot sector is used to launch the -Linux kernel. - If you do not need graphical output, you can disable it and redirect the virtual serial port and the QEMU monitor to the console with the @option{-nographic} option. The typical command line is: --=20 2.18.1