Re: softmmu vs sysemu [Was: Re: [RFC v1 06/38] target/arm: split off cpu-softmmu.c]

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 24/02/21 01:06, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 2/23/21 3:43 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 2/23/21 7:51 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > > I just want the file naming done correctly, while you're renaming.  That is
> > > something you are actively changing in this patch set, so we should get it 
> > > right.
> >
> > So what is the new directory structure?
> >
> > - user/
> > - sysemu/{tcg,kvm,}/
> >
> > or
> >
> > - tcg/a-user.c
> > - tcg/b-sysemu.c
> > - kvm/kvm.c
>
> Personally I think this second one makes more sense, focused primarily on the
> accelerator and secondarily on the kind of emulation.

I agree.

I don't care _too much_ about sysemu vs. softmmu.  In any case if we 
want to go with sysemu it can be done in steps:

- easy: rename files and directories

- medium: rename sourcesets in meson.build

- harder (or just larger): rename CONFIG_SOFTMMU

Paolo