Hi all, For baremetal my 2cents rumprunOS or rumpOS perhaps ?
Regards Sotiris Sent from my iPhone >> On 06 May 2015, at 04:23, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 06/05/15 10:58, Ian Jackson wrote: >>> Krishna writes ("Re: Final call: app-tools toolchain naming / arch tuple >>> selection"): >>> 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 think this is a bad idea. It will happen that someone will want to >> do something special for the baremetal case. Not giving it a name >> will make the tuple matching and processing logic more complicated in >> that case. > > There were two ongoing discussions: > > 1) should the tuple contain the platform at all > 2) can we think of a better platform name for "baremetal" > > If the answer to "1" is "yes", then we definitely shouldn't leave it empty in > any case. > > The argument in favor of "yes" for "1" was that users can look at the tuple > alone and decide where that particular toolchain can be used. > > The argument in favor of "no" for "1" was that since the toolchain also > implies everything about the platform (including how to boot it, where > devices are located, etc), you need some sort of "platform+board" construct > there for the rational for "yes" to apply. It's probably not sensible to > fully enumerate every option in that space in the tuple. Therefore, it's > better to supply no information than misleading information. > > Let's move further discussion about "2" to a separate thread, as it's not > really related. >
