On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 3:41 PM Claudio Fontana <cfont...@suse.de> wrote: > > On 10/4/23 14:37, Thomas Huth wrote: > > On 04/10/2023 14.33, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > >> Am I mis-understanding what you mean by 'finishes' here, as > >> I see many references to softmmu remaining > >> In particular under configs/ > >> > >> I was also hoping it meant that we'd be changing configure > >> to allow > >> > >> configure --target-list=x86_64-system > >> 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)?
I agree that changing other remnants should be done right after this patch, for example $softmmu in configure. Changing all targets is a very large and very user-visible change, it is required but it should be planned very well. As to the actual target names, I think system is the only consistent choice since we have --enable/--disable-system (as pointed out by Claudio) and qemu-system-*. sysemu may make a little more sense in the codebase (we have include/sysemu after all), but maybe that ship has sailed since we have many occurrences of "system", for example system_ss and other related sourcesets. Paolo
