From: David Gibson <dwg-8fk3Idey6ehBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Dan Hettena <danh-5j0BnJlmnLM@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss
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Subject: Re: [Power.org:parch] cpu nodes and Power ISA categories
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:21:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100921222159.GA25226@yookeroo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2A9CCDDDAE41C446A006170FF0C786313BEF25AB4A-W7/FcDFGA5PmPQGcmWacsw@public.gmane.org>
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:34:03AM -0700, Dan Hettena wrote:
> > > That would be fine if powerpc were changed to power.
> >
> > Um.. why? I thought the name of the actual architecture was "PowerPC"
> > and that "power" was just an IBM brand name (where POWER3 and later in
> > the line are PowerPC architecture compliant).
>
> "Power" has been the name of the architecture ever since 2.03.
>
> "PowerPC" was the name of the Server architecture only through 2.02
> (and also of the original AIM architecture). AFAIK, all new
> implementations of the Power Architecture outside IBM's 4xx line
> avoid using the "PowerPC" name.
Huh. Shows how up to date I am. Ok, "power" it is.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-24 14:50 resend-- RFC: representation of CPUs/threads in device trees Yoder Stuart-B08248
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2010-09-20 2:01 ` [Power.org:parch] cpu nodes and Power ISA categories David Gibson
2010-09-20 6:35 ` Dan Hettena
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2010-09-21 2:57 ` David Gibson
2010-09-21 13:50 ` Jimi Xenidis
2010-09-21 14:34 ` Dan Hettena
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2010-09-21 22:21 ` David Gibson [this message]
2010-09-22 13:47 ` Steve Thurber
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2010-09-29 3:08 ` David Gibson
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