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


From: Thomas Huth
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] misc: Rename 'softmmu' -> 'system'
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 09:49:42 +0200
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On 04/10/2023 15.53, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 03:49:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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.

Yep, I agree with that view now, lets stick with 'system'.

Ok, convinced, seems like 'system' is likely still the best choice.

 Thomas




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