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

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:35:42AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 08/07/2018 10:17 AM, kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Denverton and Gemini Lake are platform names and should not be used for
> > Processor Family stuff. The microarchitecture codename should be used.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Denverton is the platform.  "Goldmont" is literally the
> microarchitecture, and you are suggesting moving *to* the
> microarchitecture name, which contradicts the description.

All the other (big core) are uarch names. Atom is weird in that it mixes
uarch with platform names.