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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/cpu: Add new Intel Atom CPU model name
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?

> > 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.

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