linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/cpu: Add new Intel Atom CPU model name

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Message-ID: <20190822102955.GS2369@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:29:55 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     Rahul Tanwar <rahul.tanwar@...ux.intel.com>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "bp@...en8.de" <bp@...en8.de>, "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Shevchenko, Andriy" <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
        "alan@...ux.intel.com" <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
        "ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com" 
        <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Wu, Qiming" <qi-ming.wu@...el.com>,
        "Kim, Cheol Yong" <cheol.yong.kim@...el.com>,
        "Tanwar, Rahul" <rahul.tanwar@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/cpu: Add new Intel Atom CPU model name

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 01:18:46PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:57:35PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> As I mentioned above, there are some folks internally that think
> NP == Network Processor is too narrow a pigeonhole for this CPU.
> 
> But _NPAOS (Network Processor And Other Stuff) doesn't sound helpful.

So what is 'other stuff'; is there really no general term that describes
well what's been done to this SoC; or is it secret and we're in a catch
22 here?

> > Note that for the big cores we added the NNPI thing, which was for
> > Neural Network Processing something.
> 
> I'm sure that we will invent all sorts of strings for the "OPTDIFF"
> part of the name (many of which will only be used once or twice).

That's a bit sad; because as shown by the patches just send out; there
really isn't _that_ much variation right now.

Anyway, lets just give the thing a name; _NP whatever, and we can
rename it if needed.