On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:03:27PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > Digging up this from the distant past (November, 2005): > > It seems that the branding people focus most of their time and > energy on processor implementations, rather than on families of > processors. So there isn't a clear answer from them on just what > they'd like 0x20 to be tranlated to. One did suggest: > > family : Dual-core Intel(r) Itanium(r) 2 processor 9000 series > > But that rather seriously overflows the "char family[32]" buffer into > which it would need to be copied, doesn't fit into the style of > earlier family names as used by Linux and might be outdated if > we are still using family 0x20 for processors with more than two > cores. And is a bit crass ... I mean we already plug it as a GenuineIntel in the vendor field. How about more plainly: family : Multi-core Itanium 2 I suppose this risks confusion with HP's Hondo package, though. Maybe family : 9000 series Itanium 2 would do better? > > Maybe we could put in a patch temporarily that calls it "Montecito", > > then Intel can patch it to whatever the official marketing name is > > upon release? > > "Montecito" would be a poor choice. Next processor in the series is > "Montvale", and it will also have family 0x20. I would hope that the family name would be decided before Montvale was released ;-) > 32 is good ... it even makes us more like arch/i386/kernel/cpu/proc.c > which makes no attempt to interpret the number, just prints it in decimal. > As a bonus, no patch is needed, nor will any future changes be needed > as new family numbers are assigned! Yes, I like this idea. Being More Like i386 is always a good idea. > The only remaining question is whether we should drop the translation > of 0x7 to "Itanium" and 0x1f to "Itanium 2", and just unconditionally > print the family as a decimal number. This would make it all symetrical > (but sadly requires strong evidence that there are no applications that > depend on the old string values for the "family" field in /proc/cpuinfo). We've always felt free to change these strings before. Anyone relying on them for anything more than display-to-the-user purposes is on a losing streak. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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