On 12:19 Wed 01 Apr , fxzhang wrote: > It should be Yeeloong, any yeloong will be a mistake. Thanks for clearing this up. Zhang, Le http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org > > I will require our guys to take actions to correct it. As for your > patch, Yanhua is working on merging it into newest linux/mips tree and > push it upstream, he is some what slow due to too much work. > > Thank you for your support and work on Loongson. > > Best Regards > Zhang Le 写道: >> Sorry for cross posting, but I just want to bring this issue to a wider >> audience. >> >> Maybe I am not the one who should be worried about this. But since more and >> more people will get these machines, we should settle it down as early as >> possible. >> >> This is a bikeshedding problem[1], so _everyone_ is welcome to comment. >> >> First of all, this problem is first discovered by Liu Shiwei, the manager of >> Beijing Loongson Club. If you search 'yeloong', this post will appear in the >> first page: >> http://www.lemote.com/bbs/redirect.php?tid=21768&goto=lastpost >> >> Then, I have proposed a naming convention change to lemote. That was a patch >> which I didn't post it to a public mailing list. But you can get it here: >> http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/linux-loongson.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/lemote-naming-convention >> In that patch, I sugguest keep fuloong, but call the notebook yeeloong instead >> of yeloong. >> >> The following are the rationales behind my suggestions: >> >> 1. Fulong -> Fuloong. >> >> This one is good. For those who has a box, please cat your /proc/cpuinfo. >> It should still be fulong. And I believe the fulong should be a typo. >> >> 2. Yeeloong -> Yeloong. >> >> I think this one is controversial. The e in Yeloong, to me, sounds like e >> in yes, not ee in eel. So that the sound is changed, this action is by >> itself bad. And Yeloong may make people connect it with the word yell, >> which is not quite good a word. Moreover, the original sound is >> more like its Chinese brand name. >> >> And, recently I have just noticed that at the long long last lemote is going >> to push Loongson 2F patches to upstream, which is good. However, I found the >> notebook's name is still yeloong: >> http://dev.lemote.com/git?p=linux_loongson.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/to-mips >> >> So, I hope lemote could seriously take my suggestion in consideration. And if my >> suggestion were rejected, please give your reason behind the rejection. >> >> Thanks for everyone's time! >> >> Zhang, Le >> http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_the_bikeshed >> >> > > >
