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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 3:41 PM Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/23 14:37, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 04/10/2023 14.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> >> Am I mis-understanding what you mean by 'finishes' here, as
> >> I see many references to softmmu remaining
> >> In particular under configs/
> >>
> >> I was also hoping it meant that we'd be changing configure
> >> to allow
> >>
> >>      configure --target-list=x86_64-system
> >>      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)?

I agree that changing other remnants should be done right
after this patch, for example $softmmu in configure. Changing
all targets is a very large and very user-visible change, it is
required but it should be planned very well.

As to the actual target names, I think system is the only
consistent choice since we have --enable/--disable-system
(as pointed out by Claudio) and qemu-system-*.  sysemu
may make a little more sense in the codebase (we have
include/sysemu after all), but maybe that ship has sailed
since we have many occurrences of "system", for example
system_ss and other related sourcesets.

Paolo