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
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