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From: David Gibson <dwg-8fk3Idey6ehBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Dan Hettena <danh-5j0BnJlmnLM@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss
	<devicetree-discuss-uLR06cmDAlY/bJ5BZ2RsiQ@public.gmane.org>,
	"parch-QRwYI7m9GJLYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org"
	<parch-QRwYI7m9GJLYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21 22:21 UTC|newest]

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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