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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:26:36 -0500 From: Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org> To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Mark Langsdorf <mlangsdo@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>, Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] arm64: Work around Falkor erratum 1003 Hi Mark, On 01/11/2017 01:45 PM, Mark Rutland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:40:42PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote: >> On 01/11/2017 12:37 PM, Mark Rutland wrote: >>> The name, as it is, is perfectly descriptive. >>> >>> Let's not sacrifice legibility over a non-issue. >> >> I don't want to kick a dead horse or anything, but changing it to >> QCOM_FLKR_ERRATUM_1003 would eliminate all the spacing problems >> without sacrificing anything. > > The CPU is called "Falkor", not "FLKR", and we're not coming up with an > ACPI table name... > > The ARM Ltd. erratum numbers are global to all parts, so we don't > include the part name. Is the 1003 erratum number specific to Falkor? > > If it's global, you could use QCOM_ERRATUM_1003 instead. E1003 is specific to Falkor, and hopefully just its first major revision. Qualcomm Technology's first/previous generation ARMv8 custom microarchitecture used errata numbers below 1000. I am not aware of global coordination in the numbering, unfortunately. > Otherwise, QCOM_FALKOR_ERRATUM_1003 is preferable. Thanks, Cov -- Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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