From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.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 14:10:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC37043.5010508@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100412185016.3C9BBE50979@gemini.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> For example, how big is (ummm: was) a standard 3.5" floppy disk?
>
> 1.44 MB, right?
>
> Well, actually it's 1474560 bytes, or 1440 * 1024 bytes.
>
> So this "MB" here is 1000 * 1024 - which is complete nonsense.
This is bad example, because the size of a floppy is neither 1.44MB nor 1.44 MiB.
> Let's use the official standard units, please. We may not like them,
> but at least they will not cause a $125 million Mars orbiter to
> crash...
Alright.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-12 19:10 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
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 [this message]
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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