I don't disagree which is why I changed it to BootConsole.  I didn't
want to drop the word console though.

What about SimConsole -> Terminal?

  Nate

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Ali Saidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think the real issue is that the term Console as applied to the early
> booting code of Alpha is not generally known. We can call it something that
> it isn't, but that confuses the people who know.
>
>  Ali
>
>
>
>  On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:10 PM, nathan binkert wrote:
>
> > I only know of two uses of Console.  The display console and the alpha
> > console.  The issue with the latter is that it's explicitly called the
> > console in the alpha code.
> >
> > I could rename SimConsole to Terminal.  How would that do?
> >
> >  Nate
> >
> >
> > >  My one concern is that all the forms of "Console" might be getting
> > > a bit ambiguous, especially if other ISAs have something similar. I
> > > can't think of anything that conflicts with in any of the ISAs I'm
> > > most familiar with, but it's something to watch out for if you drop
> > > the "Alpha" at least.
> > >
> > > Gabe
> > >
> > > nathan binkert wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ok, I've got a bunch of default renaming in my tree:
> > > >
> > > > default output directory is now: ./m5out
> > > > default stats filename is now: <outdir>/stats
> > > > default config file output is now: <outdir>/config
> > > > default console output is now: <outdir>/<sysname>.console
> > > >
> > > > In doing the last one, I decided to rename SimConsole -> Console and
> > > > AlphaConsole to BootConsole.
> > > >
> > > > Does that all seem alright?  I only want to do this all once since it
> > > > will potentially require people to rewrite scripts and requires fixing
> > > > up the regression stuff.
> > > >
> > > >  Nate
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