Re: [PATCH v2 1/8] MIPS: Introduce CPU_ISA_GE_* Kconfig entries

[Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steven,

On Monday, 14 August 2017 11:56:46 PDT Steven J. Hill wrote:
> On 08/14/2017 01:18 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > With the new Kconfig entries introduced by this patch this can be
> > 
> > simplified to:
> >   default y if CPU_ISA_GE_R1
> 
> The idea for the patch is solid.

Thanks.

> Can we not just use CPU_ISA_R1,
> and so on? GE immediately makes me think "Graphics Engine" and
> there are the GE7 ASICs from old SGI hardware. Maybe it's just
> me and it doesn't confuse anyone else.

I went with "GE" because that matches what the MIPS instruction set uses in 
branch-compare instructions. I think leaving it out would make it unclear what 
the difference from the existing CPU_MIPSR1 etc entries is, but if something 
else would be clearer to people I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks,
    Paul

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