Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:35:44 -0700 | From | "Luck, Tony" <> | Subject | [PATCH] x86/cpu: Add new Airmont variant to Intel family |
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On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:53:47AM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:29:55PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > 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? > > Since CPU model number is one of the early bits of disclosure > in order to get support upstream in time for launch, safe to > assume that some products will not want to advertise everything > that far ahead. > > > > > 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. > > Your other patch series shows that you aren't afraid > of a little churn. So sure, we can go with _NP for now > and fix it up later. It's not like some OEM is going > to make a CPU selection based on the #define name that > we gave it in Linux :-)
From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
One of the use cases for this processor is as a network processor. So give it an "_NP" tag for now. Could be changed later if it turns out to group with some other tag.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h index 5c05b2d389c3..23ed388a3a56 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ #define INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_AIRMONT 0x4C /* Cherry Trail, Braswell */ #define INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_AIRMONT_MID 0x5A /* Moorefield */ +#define INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_AIRMONT_NP 0x75 /* Lightning Mountain */ #define INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_GOLDMONT 0x5C /* Apollo Lake */ #define INTEL_FAM6_ATOM_GOLDMONT_D 0x5F /* Denverton */ -- 2.20.1
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