From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C291D67B6C for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:38:38 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] General CHRP/MPC5K2 Platform and drivers support - to comment From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Matt Sealey In-Reply-To: <453CD615.4050401@genesi-usa.com> References: <453771E5.4090808@bplan-gmbh.de> <77AD49CA-69CB-4ADA-B8F3-3BC3A066BCF9@kernel.crashing.org> <453884F5.4000804@bplan-gmbh.de> <122A4E06-B8A6-4256-B96E-3811EA93EA25@kernel.crashing.org> <453B6A84.3050209@bplan-gmbh.de> <1161585371.10524.444.camel@localhost.localdomain> <453CD615.4050401@genesi-usa.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:38:32 +1000 Message-Id: <1161639512.10524.485.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 16:47 +0200, Matt Sealey wrote: > Curious question. > > What are you guys going to do when the PowerPC name is defunct? It's not really, is it ? I don't care anyway, it will stay PowerPC in linux of course :) > Like, last month :) > > Power Architecture is where it is at. The trademark is even going to > lapse Who cares ? Besides, while PAPR says "Power architecture", the processor architecture specification says PowerPC :) > . It's a bit too late for the ppc->powerpc tree breakout now, > but wouldn't it just confuse people to be using a "Power Architecture" > processor or SoC of some type, using collections of definitions from > the Power ISA 2.03 and have this "powerpc" thing pop up? It's PowerPC ISA :) > It confused me even before, because ppc and ppc64 have also been > used to support real POWER (with a capital P, O, W, E and R) processors, > and now these are lumped in with powerpc which is no better than > ppc64 in these terms? Historically, POWER means something else ... then with POWER3, POWER processors became compatible with the PowerPC architecture, then IBM played name changing game a couple of times and nobody knows what's up anymore :) > Just flexing my marketing exec muscles, see if they work, never done > it before. Oh... *crack*.. that wasn't a good noise :] AFAIK, the processor instruction set architecture is PowerPC an that will not change. Ben.