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

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 02:37:14PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 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)?

Simply 'machine' feels like an option, to avoid suggesting a bias towards
either virtualization or emulation.


With regards,
Daniel
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