[patch 7/8] powerpc: hvc backend for systemsim

Ryan Arnold rsa at us.ibm.com
Tue Jan 17 03:21:58 EST 2006


On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 13:11 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2006 03:05, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > This introduces a third name for the same enviroment.
> > 
> > Now we have:
> > 
> > * Mambo
> > * systemsim
> > * FSS or Full System Simulator
> > 
> > I don't care which one stays, but it's silly to have three.
> 
> Yes, that was not particularly well coordinated. Ryan chose
> the 'fss' name when he did the hvc backend driver, which was
> probably a poor choice considering that everything else
> seems to move to systemsim.

I avoided 'systemsim' because it made my function names excessively
long, but that probably isn't an excuse.  I'm not particularily attached
to the driver name so change it as you see fit.

-- 
Ryan Arnold <rsa at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center




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