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author | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2016-06-29 12:27:37 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-07-01 10:03:24 +0200 |
commit | 4b3b234f434d440fcd749b9636131b76e2ce561e (patch) | |
tree | 618325313be92dc2a6d90d25b71c98f5bbe1de33 /README | |
parent | 09c6c30e72ce6892b21e6cf76b4508ad82a38636 (diff) | |
download | linux-4b3b234f434d440fcd749b9636131b76e2ce561e.tar.bz2 |
x86/cpu: Rename "WESTMERE2" family to "NEHALEM_G"
Len Brown noticed something was amiss in our INTEL_FAM6_*
definitions. It seems like model 0x1F was a Nehalem part,
marketed as "Intel Core i7 and i5 Processors" (according to the
SDM). But, although it was a Nehalem 0x1F had some uncore events
which were shared with Westmere.
Len also mentioned he thought it was called "Havendale", which
Wikipedia says was graphics-oriented and canceled:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)
So either way, it's probably not imporant what we call it, but
call it Nehalem to be accurate, and add a "G" since it seems
graphics-related. If it were canceled that would be a good reason
why it's so sparsely and inconsistently referred to in the code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160629192737.949C41A8@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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