From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:16:59 +0000 Subject: RE: Montecito processor family Message-Id: <1149617819.5920.44.camel@lappy> List-Id: References: <42ADD890.1010406@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <42ADD890.1010406@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 11:04 -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > > I would also like to take this opportunity to revamp feature string. > It is way too long, and should be either two or three letter acronym > like x86: > > X86 feature string: "flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce ... " > > - features : branchlong, 16-byte atomic ops > + features : lb ao On the down side, I find that I sometimes have to go look in the code to figure out which flags I care about on x86. Are "lb" and "ao" defined somewhere? Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org.