Re: [PATCH 00/13] misc: Rename 'softmmu' -> 'system'

[Thomas Huth]

On 04/10/2023 14.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 11:06:15AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > This series finishes the cleanup which remove the confusion
> > of using 'softmmu' when we really mean 'system emulation',
> > as opposition to 'user emulation'.
>
> Am I mis-understanding what you mean by 'finishes' here, as
> I see many references to softmmu remaining
>
>    $ git grep softmmu | wc -l
>    270
>
> In particular under configs/
>
> I was also hoping it meant that we'd be changing configure
> to allow
>
>      configure --target-list=x86_64-system
>
> though the lazy side of me would like
>
>      configure --target-list=x86_64-vm
>
> for less typing

Maybe we should also bikeshed about the naming first... "system" is a quite 
overloaded word in this context already, and "vm" sounds rather like 
hardware-accelerated stuff ... what about using something like "sysemu"? Or 
"fullsys" for "full system emulation" (in contrast to "user space"-only 
emulation)?

 Thomas