That's probably better. I'm cool with "Terminal" and "ConsoleFirmware"
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Gabe Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe call it ConsoleFirmware? > > Gabe > > > > Ali Saidi wrote: > > > The only problem is that the BootConsole has almost nothing to do with a > serial console to watch booting. > > > > Ali > > > > On Apr 3, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Gabe Black wrote: > > > > > Hopefully this gets through. I think this would help a lot. When I hear > BootConsole, I think a serial console to watch boot. If there's also a > Terminal, I'd likely assume that's what I want and just ignore BootConsole. > > > > > > Gabe > > > > > > nathan binkert wrote: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > m5-dev mailing list > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > m5-dev mailing list > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > m5-dev mailing list > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > m5-dev mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > m5-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > m5-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > m5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev > > _______________________________________________ m5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
