On 25 July 2018 at 17:13, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 25 July 2018 at 11:09, Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zh...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On 25 July 2018 at 17:01, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> On 25 July 2018 at 10:48, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 01:30:52PM +0800, Hongbo Zhang wrote: >>>>> For the Aarch64, there is one machine 'virt', it is primarily meant to >>>>> run on KVM and execute virtualization workloads, but we need an >>>>> environment as faithful as possible to physical hardware, for supporting >>>>> firmware and OS development for pysical Aarch64 machines. >>>>> >>>>> This patch introduces new machine type 'Enterprise' with main features: >>>> >>>> The 'enterprise' name is really awful - this is essentially a marketing >>>> term completely devoid of any useful meaning. >>>> >>>> You had previously called this "sbsa" which IIUC was related to a real >>>> world hardware specification that it was based on. IOW, I think this old >>>> name was preferrable to calling it "enterprise". >>>> >>> >>> I couldn't agree more. However, IIUC this change was made at the >>> request of one of the reviewers, although I wasn't part of the >>> discussion at that point, so I'm not sure who it was. >>> >>> Hongbo, could you please share a link to that discussion? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ard. >>> >> >> V1 discussion here: >> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg545775.html >> > > So who asked for the sbsa -> enterprise change?
Actually nobody, but it was argued that sbsa does not require ehci and ahci etc, then we should find a name fitting for this platform better.
