Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:30:48 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS, x86/CPU: Tony Luck will maintain asm/intel-family.h |
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:22:07PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Luck, Tony wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 07:54:55PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > @@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ > > * While adding a new CPUID for a new microarchitecture, add a new > > * group to keep logically sorted out in chronological order. Within > > * that group keep the CPUID for the variants sorted by model number. > > + * > > + * HOWTO Build an INTEL_FAM6_ definition: > > + * > > + * 1. Start with INTEL_FAM6_ > > + * 2. If not Core-family, add a note about it, like "ATOM". There are only > > + * two options for this (Xeon Phi and Atom). It is exceedingly unlikely > > + * that you are adding a cpu which needs a new option here. > > + * 3. Add the processor microarchitecture, not the platform name > > + * 4. Add a short differentiator if necessary. Add an _X to differentiate > > + * Server from Client. > > We have the following existing _SHORT variants:
> _PLUS
That one isn't actually a _SHORT, the uarch is called 'Goldmont Plus'.
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