On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>>>> BTW folks. Would it be hard to change your spe_ prefixes to
> >>>>> something
> >>>>> else ? There's already enough confusion between the freescale SPE
> >>>>> unit
> >>>>> and the cell SPEs :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Will you change _your_ prefixes too? :-) :-)
> >>>
> >>> Which ones ? I'm not in charge of the fsl spe thingy nor the spe
> >>> scheduler code :-)
> >>
> >> I meant the Cell code of course.
> >
> > Did you ever take a look at the cell code?
>
> Not often, no. I'm perfectly happy that I don't have
> to touch that.
>
> > The only place 'spe'
> > is used in a prefix are a handfull of hardware datatstructures and the
> > sony crap hypervisor hvcalls. Everything else uses spu_ as a prefix.
>
> That sounds nice. There are slightly fewer things called
> SPU than there are called SPE I imagine? Or is it just a
> historical misnomer.
AFAIK SPE is the preferred name, as the SPU is only a part of the SPE.
That's what I was told.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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