Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pc: rename machine types

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

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