From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Montecito processor family
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:22:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq0irnds4ky.fsf@jaguar.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42ADD890.1010406@free.fr>
>>>>> "Ken" = Chen, Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> writes:
Ken> I thought the x86 acronym was taken straight out of SDM, refer to
Ken> CPUID instruction detail there. We should do the same on ia64.
Ken> Section 3.1.11 out of SDM volume 1:
Ken> field bit description lb 0 long branch (brl) instructions. sd 1
Ken> spontaneous deferral ao 2 16-byte atomic operations rv 63:3
Ken> Reserved.
Ken> It's only my wishful thinking. The acronym should be improved a
Ken> bit to be more creative and meaningful in its current form. Oh
Ken> well.
IMHO single words are much nicer to read than strange letter
combos. If we take this path, could we at least make sure it gets
documented in Documentation/ somewhere?
Thanks,
Jes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-07 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-13 19:03 Montecito processor family Menyhart, Zoltan
2005-06-13 19:17 ` Yu, Fenghua
2005-11-09 13:54 ` Takayoshi Kochi
2005-11-09 15:24 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-10 1:50 ` Takayoshi Kochi
2006-06-01 0:03 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-01 1:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-01 3:06 ` Russ Anderson
2006-06-01 3:30 ` Alex Williamson
2006-06-01 16:32 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-02 6:51 ` dann frazier
2006-06-02 22:18 ` Russ Anderson
2006-06-03 18:43 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-03 19:23 ` David Mosberger-Tang
2006-06-05 20:37 ` Luck, Tony
2006-06-06 18:04 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-06 18:16 ` Alex Williamson
2006-06-06 18:59 ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-06-07 9:22 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
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