On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 11:37:36AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 07:48:51PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 10:35:42AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > On 08/07/2018 10:17 AM, [email protected] 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. > > On most big core the platform/SOC just happens to have the same name as the > uarch. But the identifiers really have to be per SOC because that > is how Intel model numbers work.
I'm sure that is how we ended up with two SKX parts with identical model numbers but different crystal frequencies :-( Let's just keep consistency and use MICROARCH_TYPE things for everything.
