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| author | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2019-08-15 11:16:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2019-08-17 10:06:32 +0200 |
| commit | 12ece2d53d3e8f827e972caf497c165f7729c717 (patch) | |
| tree | 66dc872515c4974e6200292fb6c3c92a82ff771e /arch | |
| parent | a90118c445cc7f07781de26a9684d4ec58bfcfd1 (diff) | |
x86/cpu: Explain Intel model naming convention
Dave Hansen spelled out the rules in an e-mail:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/91eefbe4-e32b-d762-be4d-672ff915db47@intel.com
Copy those right into the <asm/intel-family.h> file to make it easy for
people to find them.
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815224704.GA10025@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h index 0278aa66ef62..fe7c205233f1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/intel-family.h @@ -11,6 +11,21 @@ * While adding a new CPUID for a new microarchitecture, add a new * group to keep logically sorted out in chronological order. Within * that group keep the CPUID for the variants sorted by model number. + * + * The defined symbol names have the following form: + * INTEL_FAM6{OPTFAMILY}_{MICROARCH}{OPTDIFF} + * where: + * OPTFAMILY Describes the family of CPUs that this belongs to. Default + * is assumed to be "_CORE" (and should be omitted). Other values + * currently in use are _ATOM and _XEON_PHI + * MICROARCH Is the code name for the micro-architecture for this core. + * N.B. Not the platform name. + * OPTDIFF If needed, a short string to differentiate by market segment. + * Exact strings here will vary over time. _DESKTOP, _MOBILE, and + * _X (short for Xeon server) should be used when they are + * appropriate. + * + * The #define line may optionally include a comment including platform names. */ #define INTEL_FAM6_CORE_YONAH 0x0E |