From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/85xx: Rename PowerPC core nodes to match other e500mc based .dts
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:52:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E6117E6.8080103@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0995BAB2-7865-4E95-A842-EFE486FFDAC4@kernel.crashing.org>
On 09/01/2011 10:21 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
> On Sep 1, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Scott Wood wrote:
>
>> On 09/01/2011 02:26 PM, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> The P4080 silicon device tree was using PowerPC,4080 while the other
>>> e500mc based SoCs used PowerPC,e500mc. Use the core name to be
>>> consistent going forward.
>>
>> Why are we not using the generic names recommendation?
>>
>> Is the "PowerPC" vendor string still appropriate here, or should we use
>> "fsl"?
>>
>> -Scott
>
> I have mixed feelings on this. The PowerPC,NAME has a long history & precedence. Is there any use or value to change this?
It's inconsistent with all of our other compatibles. My understanding
is that for older chips, the naming was from a managed numberspace -- is
"e500" or "eXXXX" something that was explicitly granted to us by
power.org, or just something we started calling our cores?
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-01 19:26 [PATCH 1/4] powerpc/85xx: Rename PowerPC core nodes to match other e500mc based .dts Kumar Gala
2011-09-01 20:42 ` Scott Wood
2011-09-01 22:34 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-09-02 3:21 ` Kumar Gala
2011-09-02 17:52 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2011-09-02 18:29 ` Kumar Gala
2011-09-02 18:33 ` Scott Wood
2011-09-01 22:33 ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2011-09-02 3:35 ` Kumar Gala
2011-10-12 4:21 ` Kumar Gala
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