Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 May 2017 14:02:37 +0200 | From | Andrew Lunn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/13] ARM: dts: armada-385-linksys: use binary unit prefixes |
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 10:33:02AM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2017 20:24:16 +0200 > Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 May 2017 17:00:01 +0200 > > Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:48:57PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > > > Use IEEE 1541-2002 unit prefixes for sizes. > > > > > > Does ePAPR recommend this? > > > > Not directly, but the paper (v1.1) itself is using MiB as well which > > could be seen as a recommendation. > > Found the pdf again on the web, so here a link: > http://elinux.org/images/c/cf/Power_ePAPR_APPROVED_v1.1.pdf > > Funny thing it's using KB(instead of KiB) and MiB. So it's > inconsistent, also the unit with SI prefix would be kB and not KB. So > I'd say ePAPR doesn't care / the authors didn't pay any attention to > this.
Hi Ralph
Thanks for checking into this.
My preference, and it is only a preference, is to not do this. Keep with MB, KB.
Andrew
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