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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: rename machine types
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: rename machine types |
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Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:32:26 +0100 |
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On 01/09/13 11:09, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> I don't care that much what the actual names are. Using piix + q35 is
>>> inconsistent, so it isn't that a good choice indeed. So what now?
>>>
>>> (1) We could go for the host bridge and use 'i440fx' + 'q35'.
>>> (2) We could go for the south bridge and use 'piix' + 'ich9'.
>
> Either of these sound fine to me, with a slight preference for the
> first option.
>
>>> (3) Something different?
>
> If we really want 'pc' in the name, then
>
> (4) pci440fx & pcq35
> (5) pcpiix & pcich9
A dash would improve readability, also we have isapc which has pc as
postfix, so maybe 'i440fx-pc' + 'q35-pc' ?
>> The issue I have with 'i440fx' and 'q35' is that it's basically
>> gibberish to a non-QEMU developer.
>
> With my users and/or libvirt developers hat on, I don't agree really.
> What Gerd suggests clearly states the hardware type being used by the
> machine. I think 'pc' is pretty much meaningless as a machine name
> because it can mean pretty much anything you want to it. It is akin
> to just calling your network device 'nic' and your disk device 'disk',
> which QEMU doesn't do for obvious reasons.
Fully agree. It also follows the convention of other archs (just look
at the arm machine names).
cheers,
Gerd