Looks like the headless option might be another dead option (pun intended). On the wiki it is described as:
"Specify that the machine being installed onto does not have any display hardware, and that anaconda should not probe for it."
But as far as I can tell it does not prevent any display hardware probing and basically works like yet another "use textmode" switch. So I would say we can just drop it to simplify the displayMode configuration a bit.
Another option would to make it do the same thing the "text" option does and document that it is just an alternative name for the "text" option.
Martin Kolman (1): Remove the headless Anaconda option
anaconda | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
It seems to be a historical relict without any real use. It no longer prevents any "probing for graphical hardware" and just using the "text" option provides the same end result.
Signed-off-by: Martin Kolman mkolman@redhat.com --- anaconda | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/anaconda b/anaconda index f29b24d..c48a995 100755 --- a/anaconda +++ b/anaconda @@ -287,7 +287,6 @@ def parseArguments(argv=None, boot_cmdline=None): ap.add_argument("--liveinst", action="store_true", default=False)
# Display - ap.add_argument("--headless", dest="isHeadless", action="store_true", default=False) ap.add_argument("--resolution", dest="runres", default=None) ap.add_argument("--usefbx", dest="xdriver", action="store_const", const="fbdev") ap.add_argument("--vnc", action="store_true", default=False) @@ -491,7 +490,7 @@ def setupDisplay(anaconda, options, addons=None): vncS.anaconda = anaconda
anaconda.displayMode = options.display_mode - anaconda.isHeadless = options.isHeadless or arch.isS390() + anaconda.isHeadless = arch.isS390()
if options.vnc: flags.usevnc = True
Looks like the headless option might be another dead option (pun intended). On the wiki it is described as:
"Specify that the machine being installed onto does not have any display hardware, and that anaconda should not probe for it."
But as far as I can tell it does not prevent any display hardware probing and basically works like yet another "use textmode" switch. So I would say we can just drop it to simplify the displayMode configuration a bit.
Another option would to make it do the same thing the "text" option does and document that it is just an alternative name for the "text" option.
Yeah, looks like more historical cruft to me. I'm glad someone's working on weeding all this out.
- Chris
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 09:42 -0400, Chris Lumens wrote:
Looks like the headless option might be another dead option (pun intended). On the wiki it is described as:
"Specify that the machine being installed onto does not have any display hardware, and that anaconda should not probe for it."
But as far as I can tell it does not prevent any display hardware probing and basically works like yet another "use textmode" switch. So I would say we can just drop it to simplify the displayMode configuration a bit.
Another option would to make it do the same thing the "text" option does and document that it is just an alternative name for the "text" option.
Yeah, looks like more historical cruft to me. I'm glad someone's working on weeding all this out.
Thanks! :)
- Chris
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