On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 09:36:45AM +0530, Krishna wrote: > On 5 May 2015 at 21:05, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 05/05/15 15:19, Martin Lucina wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday, 05.05.2015 at 11:19, Antti Kantee wrote: > >> > >>> Do we want to keep the name "app-tools"? AFAIR, it was coined (by > >>> Ian?) before we'd really settled in on other terminology. Is simply > >>> rumprun-tools better? > >>> > >> > >> I have no opinion. It's more of an "internal" name and seems as good as > >> any. > >> > > > > If nobody has an opinion, I'm pulling the "consistency matters to me" card > > (and to probably everyone new to the project who's trying to do some > > internal hacking and is wondering what's an "app" and why we need > > "app-tools"). > > > > I'm a bit unhappy with "baremetal". It's long and not very > >>> descriptive. At least we'll get rid of the extra "bmk" term, which > >>> is good, but a better term for "baremetal" would be nice to invent. > >>> > >> > >> How about just "metal" ? > >> > > > > It's shorter, but not really better. I was tossing around "hw" in my head > > earlier, which is even shorter, but it's still a bad name since the > > platform is not only for hardware. > > > How about not having a term for baremetal? Just rumprun. That way, > rumprun{posix, xen} appear as extension/specialization of the common case, > baremetal. >
I don't think baremetal is a more common case than posix and xen, just as x86 is not more "common" than arm, mips, sparc etc. Wei. > Cheers, > --krishna
