Re: [PATCH] x86/cpu: Rename Denverton and Gemini Lake

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Aug 07 2018 - 13:34:36 EST


On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:17:27AM -0700, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Denverton and Gemini Lake are platform names and should not be used for
> Processor Family stuff. The microarchitecture codename should be used.
>
> DENVERTON is Goldmont server SoC. Rename DENVERTON to GOLDMONT2, similar
> to SILVERMONT2 being the silvermont server SoCs.
>
> Rename GEMINI_LAKE to GOLDMONT_PLUS.
>
> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks! the alternative to 2 is _X like we have with the big cores to
denote server chips, but this is already a nice improvement.