On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 at 05:47, NaNa Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM Peter Maydell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Sat, 27 Sept 2025 at 09:48, Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > On 23.09.2025 14:57, Peter Maydell wrote: >> > >> > > We could probably also correct the bit of the text in this file >> > > that currently reads "depend on SMM emulation on x64" to either >> > > say "x86" or "x86_64". >> > >> > This one will be a bit more than trivial :) I for one don't know >> > if this is related to any x86 or to x86_64 only. >> >> I just mean exactly and specifically the one place in this >> file which says "x64" and ought to say either "x86" or >> "x86_64". To me a single word change is pretty trivial, >> especially since nowhere else in our docs do we use "x64". >> > This is to ensure consistency between the documentation and the API code > (var-service-api.h) parameters and json file, which use "uefi-vars-x64".
The device name being "uefi-vars-x64" is unfortunate, but we can't change that. We should be consistent about how we talk about the architecture name in general when our hands are not tied by compatibility problems. -- PMM
