Re: [PATCH 00/23] Add support for Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) SoC

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2022-01-17 12:53:48, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 1:23 AM Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > > This patch set adds basic support for the Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD)
> > > SoC. This SoC contains three clusters of four Cortex-A72 CPUs,
> > > as well as several IPs.
> >
> > I'm not thrilled by their naming. Intel does not produce "Intel
> > Fastest in world SoC"
> 
> If you say so. :)
> 
> > , and this chip is not actually suitable for
> > autonomous driving :-(.
> 
> And AMD's Infinity Fabric isn't.... infinite. Things have names.
> 
> That discussion seems off-topic for this patchset. It references a
> marketing name used by the company, and as such it makes sense to be
> able to cross-reference:
> https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-computer
> 
> Tesla seems to have moved away from the initial "Hardware 3" naming
> scheme, so using this naming seems as good as any.

I'd prefer to call it Tesla HW3. Even wikipedia has that name, no need
to do false advertising for Tesla, and we'll have good names for
HW2.5 and HW4 if it comes out. We normally use codenames, not
marketing names.

Best regards,
								Pavel
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