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Date:   Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:01:59 +0100
From:   Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
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Le 12/12/12 15:55, Ralf Baechle a écrit :
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 03:53:32PM +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
>
>> This is one compatible string though, what you describe is for when use
>> multiple compatible string. E.g.
>> compatible = "mips14KEc", "mips14Kc", "mips";
>>
>> The "mips" in Stevens patch is probably the vendor prefix. Maybe a more
>> correct compatible would be.
> How about using something like mti (for MIPS Technologies, Inc.) instead
> of MIPS to differenciate the architecture from the company name?

The convention for vendor prefixes is to use the stock exchange prefix, 
giving us "mips". The same problem exist for ARM Ltd. vs architecture 
and they use "arm" as a prefix unconditionaly.
--
Florian