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From: Nick Thompson <nick.thompson@ge.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on	32-bit systems
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:16:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC34758.3050706@ge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x2ped82fe3e1004120912u313a0c4du533a91f292ceaccc@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/04/10 17:12, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> 
>> If we make this change, we can probably use this function as well to
>> print the size of storage devices like NAND, USB Mass Storage, hard
>> disk drives, etc.  Eventually we can clean up some pieces of code
>> then...
> 
> I'm working on it now.  I did notice something odd, though.  The
> strings for sizes are GB, MB, and kB.  Why is the "k" lowercase?
> 

To differentiate from "K", which means 1000, rather than 1024.
Example Kg = 1000 grammes. kB = 1024 Bytes

Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-12 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-30 23:02 [U-Boot] [PATCH] [v3] fix print_size printing fractional gigabyte numbers on 32-bit platforms Timur Tabi
2010-03-30 23:02 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] allow print_size to print large numbers on 32-bit systems Timur Tabi
2010-04-09 20:22   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-09 20:27     ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-09 20:40       ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 16:12         ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 16:16           ` Nick Thompson [this message]
2010-04-12 16:21             ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 16:27               ` Nick Thompson
2010-04-12 18:02             ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 17:59           ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 18:03             ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 18:20               ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 18:22               ` Scott Wood
2010-04-12 18:30                 ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 18:50                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 19:10                     ` Timur Tabi
2010-04-12 19:26                       ` Scott Wood
2010-04-09 20:10 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] [v3] fix print_size printing fractional gigabyte numbers on 32-bit platforms Wolfgang Denk
2010-04-12 16:04   ` Timur Tabi

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